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Postings from February 2001
> Which sadly have "in-place" semantics rather than function semantics,
>
> so you have to say:
>
> utf8_encode($encoded = $str);
>
> rather than LISP-ish:
>
> $encoded = utf8_encode($str);
Because we made up the Encode interface out from thin air nothing is
stopping us from either changing or extending it. It's not an
interface set in stone, yet (5.7 doesn't count). If anybody has
doubts or suggestions about the interface, now is the time to change it.
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