imap_utf7_decode

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

Decodes a modified UTF-7 encoded string

string imap_utf7_decode ( string $text )

Decodes modified UTF-7 text into ISO-8859-1 string.

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

Parameters:

text

A modified UTF-7 encoding string, as defined in » RFC 2060, section 5.1.3 (original UTF-7 was defined in » RFC1642).

Returns:

Returns a string that is encoded in ISO-8859-1 and consists of the same sequence of characters in text, or FALSE if text contains invalid modified UTF-7 sequence or text contains a character that is not part of ISO-8859-1 character set.