PHP option to escape non-ASCII characters to/from hex encoded bytes is missing

[CJDennis]

There is no option to escape/unescape characters to/from \xC2 format in PHP.

E.g. the character "À":

var_dump("\u{00C0}"==="À"); // bool(true)
var_dump("\xC3\x80"==="À"); // bool(true)
var_dump("\xC3\x80"==="\u{00C0}"); // bool(true)

It should be possible to escape "À" to "\xC3\x80", and to unescape it back to "À" afterwards.

[krasa]

Maybe I should remove the whole feature Un/Escape PHP feature. It is old and unmaintained.

[CJDennis]

Please don't remove it. I would find it very useful if it worked as I described above. I might even be willing to write a patch for it.