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# utf8_decode

(PHP 3>= 3.0.6, PHP 4 )

utf8_decode -- Converts a string with ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1.

## Description

string utf8_decode ( string data)

This function decodes `data`, assumed to be `UTF-8` encoded, to `ISO-8859-1`.

See utf8_encode() for an explaination of UTF-8 encoding.

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