[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:59 swissspidy]:
 > ...have we considered using https://packagist.org/packages/symfony
 /polyfill-mbstring instead of making the mbstring extension mandatory?

 This was suggested early on (comment:3), but even considering the
 relatively recent [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57345 change of
 minimum PHP from 5.6 to 7.0], as noted in comment:4, the package requires
 PHP 7.1+.

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