[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #55603: PHP 8.2: address deprecation of the utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() functions

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#55603: PHP 8.2: address deprecation of the utf8_encode() and utf8_decode()
functions
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 Reporter:  jrf                             |       Owner:  hellofromTonya
     Type:  task (blessed)                  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                          |   Milestone:  6.5
Component:  General                         |     Version:  6.0
 Severity:  normal                          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion php82 dev-feedback  |     Focuses:  coding-
                                            |  standards
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Comment (by ironprogrammer):

 Replying to [comment:50 hellofromTonya]:
 > Well, #47699 to require JSON extension showed a way forward when
 [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47699#comment:6 VaultPress helped
 to collect the information]:
 > >The good folks at VaultPress have run some checks across the sites they
 monitor, and have found approximately 0.01% of PHP 5.6+ sites don't have
 the JSON extension available.
 >
 > I wonder:
 >
 > Are they available to collect it again?

 Unfortunately, after reaching out to the Jetpack VaultPress Backup
 (formerly VaultPress) team, the plugin has changed such that they are no
 longer able to provide this information.

 > One other thing to note is that an error code specific to the scenario
 where the JSON extension missing is returned, which allows the number of
 sites to being blocked from an update to be tracked in .org's mission
 control to gauge whether this deprecation ends up being problematic or not
 (see [46560]).

 Would it make sense to include an `mbstring`-specific error code like that
 introduced with [46560]?

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