_deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '5.3.0', 'The PHP native JSON extension'
);
// oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please
if($this->_mb_convert_encoding
) { return mb_convert_encoding($utf16, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16'
);
} $bytes =
(ord($utf16[0
]) << 8
) |
ord($utf16[1
]);
switch(true
) { case ((0x7F &
$bytes) ==
$bytes):
// this case should never be reached, because we are in ASCII range
// see: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
return chr(0x7F &
$bytes);
case (0x07FF &
$bytes) ==
$bytes:
// return a 2-byte UTF-8 character
// see: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8
return chr(0xC0 |
(($bytes >> 6
) & 0x1F
)) .
chr(0x80 |
($bytes & 0x3F
));
case (0xFFFF &
$bytes) ==
$bytes: