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imap_utf7_encode

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

imap_utf7_encodeConverts ISO-8859-1 string to modified UTF-7 text

Description

imap_utf7_encode ( string $data ) : string

Converts data to modified UTF-7 text.

This is needed to encode mailbox names that contain certain characters which are not in range of printable ASCII characters.

Parameters

data

An ISO-8859-1 string.

Return Values

Returns data encoded with the modified UTF-7 encoding as defined in » RFC 2060, section 5.1.3 (original UTF-7 was defined in » RFC1642).

See Also

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