utf8_encode() deprecation

[graftak]

Hi!

First of all, thank you for your work!

As I'm using this package in my PHP 8.2 project, I'm getting this deprecation:
Function utf8_encode() is deprecated since 8.2, visit the php.net documentation for various alternatives in src/Diff.php line 237

If you want, I'd like to propose a solution with a PR which would solve this.

Please let me know!

Best regards,

Graftak

[Mistralys]

Hi @graftak, thanks for telling me :D

Feel free to make a PR, I would appreciate that very much. Otherwise I can have a look in the coming weeks between projects. I haven't run into the issue yet myself, but since I use the library in several applications, I am bound to come accross it sooner than later.

[Mistralys]

Leaving this here as relevant for the topic, as a number of possible replacements for utf8_encode() are mentioned:
https://php.watch/versions/8.2/utf8_encode-utf8_decode-deprecated

[Mistralys]

I made a check of the codebase, the utf8 functions are not used anywhere. Even the dependency neitanod/forceutf8 is only inherited from mistralys/application-utils-core but not used in the library. Closing this issue as there's nothing to do.

@graftak, feel free to post a comment if you give me more details how this message came about, I can't reproduce it on PHP8.4.