> One case I had (which isn't even mentioned on that page) is htmlspecialchars assuming UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 if no encoding parameter is given I agree t

> One case I had (which isn't even mentioned on that page) is htmlspecialchars assuming UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 if no encoding parameter is given I agree that encoding in PHP has been a consistent PITA, and making this move and not mentioning it, is not really helping. But again I must say, It's actually a really great thing, and again long overdue.