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corpsee/php-utf-8
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A library for UTF-8 in PHP providing UTF-8 aware functions to mirror PHP's own string functions. The library doesn't require PHP mbstring extension although, if found, it will use it to gain performance.

1.2.3(10y ago)10297LGPL-2.1PHP >=5.4.0

Since Oct 2Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/corpsee/php-utf-8)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/corpsee/php-utf-8)[ Docs](https://github.com/corpsee/php-utf-8)[ RSS](/packages/corpsee-php-utf-8/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 2mo ago

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###  Health Score

31

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LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~104 days

Total

9

Last Release

3772d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.0.0PHP >=5.3.0

1.2.0PHP >=5.4.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/bb1adf7266c31bf5a467814f6b1d165c9c4dc71beec54c34fe67158c5c2a46e0?d=identicon)[Corpsee](/maintainers/Corpsee)

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Top Contributors

[![corpsee](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1416706?v=4)](https://github.com/corpsee "corpsee (53 commits)")[![FSX](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/64273?v=4)](https://github.com/FSX "FSX (45 commits)")[![petsagouris](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/277956?v=4)](https://github.com/petsagouris "petsagouris (16 commits)")[![franzliedke](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/249125?v=4)](https://github.com/franzliedke "franzliedke (2 commits)")

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Tags

utf-8i18nutf8unicode

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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