Requirements
You must have GNU Recode 3.5 or higher installed on your system.
You can download the package from » http://directory.fsf.org/All_GNU_Packages/recode.html.
Warning
The Recode library version 3.6 adds weird characters behind converted
strings under certain circumstances. Thus it's safer to use Recode v3.5
or one of the available alternatives like the
iconv or
mbstring extension.