wp-includes/functions.php:4471Converts a string to UTF-8, so that it can be safely encoded to JSON.
$input_stringstringstringfunction _wp_json_convert_string( $input_string ) { static $use_mb = null; if ( is_null( $use_mb ) ) { $use_mb = function_exists( 'mb_convert_encoding' ); } if ( $use_mb ) { $encoding = mb_detect_encoding( $input_string, mb_detect_order(), true ); if ( $encoding ) { return mb_convert_encoding( $input_string, 'UTF-8', $encoding ); } else { return mb_convert_encoding( $input_string, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8' ); } } else { return wp_check_invalid_utf8( $input_string, true ); }}Introduced in 4.1.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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