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wrossmann/utf8\_escape
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1.0.0(7y ago)081PHPPHP >= 5.4

Since Mar 30Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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utf8\_escape
============

[](#utf8_escape)

Escape a UTF-8 string with the `\u1234` format.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP >= 5.4

However, ***you should not be using EOL versions like this.*** I added Symfony's mb\_polyfill to support PHP < 7.2 which had the side effect of making it work as far back as 5.4

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require wrossmann\utf8_escape

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$escaped = utf8_escape($string);

```

Component functions are `public static` and defined in `src/Escaper.php`.

Caveats
-------

[](#caveats)

This library does not strictly enforce that the input be well-formed UTF8 text and may misbehave if fed anything else.

As always *you* are responsible for ensuring that input you've received is encoded the way you expecct it, and to *explicitly* convert between source and destination encodings. Eg:

```
mb_convert_encoding($input, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1')

```

`utf8_encode()` and `utf8_decode()` are not magic wands and will happily break your data. Never use them.

Suggested reading
-----------------

[](#suggested-reading)

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###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity54

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

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

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

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###  Release Activity

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Total

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Last Release

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### Community

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