Maybe I am doing something wrong, but it seems to me that somewhat contrary to the documentation in 4.3.2 iconv() returns an empty string on failure, and also reports a warning (if enabled and not used as @iconv). I suspect this was different in 4.2.x.
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Manual Page -- [url]http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php[/url]
Edit Note -- [url]http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+33990[/url]
Delete Note -- [url]http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+33990&report=yes[/url]
Reject Note -- [url]http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+33990&report=yes[/url]