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leovie/weird-characters
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Converts characters in weird charsets to not so weird charset utf8

1.6.0(5y ago)03.0kMITPHP

Since Jul 24Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/LeoVie/weird-characters)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/leovie/weird-characters)[ RSS](/packages/leovie-weird-characters/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 2d ago

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###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity57

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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 ~9 days

Total

3

Last Release

2100d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/876f842b58e2a0e54d85eddfb8ed1b599586e94d9071efaddd208383ea85932c?d=identicon)[leo.viezens@web.de](/maintainers/leo.viezens@web.de)

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Top Contributors

[![LeoVie](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7249788?v=4)](https://github.com/LeoVie "LeoVie (5 commits)")

###  Code Quality

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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