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tingv/portable-utf8
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Portable UTF-8 library - performance optimized (unicode) string functions for php.

5.4.50(5y ago)05(Apache-2.0 or GPL-2.0)PHP >=7.0.0

Since Dec 15Compare

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###  Health Score

30

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LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity78

Established project with proven stability

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 ~10 days

Recently: every ~29 days

Total

220

Last Release

2004d ago

Major Versions

1.6.18 → 2.0.02015-12-23

2.1.24 → 3.0.02016-08-12

3.1.30 → 4.0.02017-11-13

4.0.1 → 5.0.02017-12-10

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3.0

4.0.0PHP >=7.0.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

phputf-8utf8unicodecleanUTF

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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