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Find PHP code that is not UTF-8 safe

Here’s a quick shell script that searches your codebase to find functions that are not UTF-8 compliant.

find_php_non_utf8

Example run:

[dcancel@macbookpro:~/]$ ./find_php_non_utf8 ~/Downloads/codeigniter
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Searching for non-UTF-8 compliant PHP code
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~/Downloads/codeigniter/.../users.php:71:	$data['redirect_to'] = substr($this->uri->uri_string(), $buffer);
~/Downloads/codeigniter/.../users.php:137:	$data['redirect_to'] = substr($this->uri->uri_string(), $buffer); 

- David