How do I detect if have to apply UTF-8 decode or encode on a string?

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I can’t say I can rely on mb_detect_encoding(). I had some freaky false positives a while back.

The most universal way I found to work well in every case was:

if (preg_match('!!u', $string))
{
   // This is UTF-8
}
else
{
   // Definitely not UTF-8
}

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