(PHP 3>= 3.0.6, PHP 4 >= 4.0b1)
utf8_decode -- Converts a string with ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1.This function decodes data, assumed to be UTF-8 encoded, to ISO-8859-1.
See utf8_encode() for an explaination of UTF-8 encoding.