# utf8_decode

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

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.

### Parameters

`data`

  An UTF-8 encoded string.

### Return Values

Returns the ISO-8859-1 translation of `data` .

### See Also

- utf8_encode() for an explanation of UTF-8 encoding