http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php

Say I do:

$encoded = mb_convert_encoding ($original);

That looks like simple enough. WHat I am imagining is the following

$original has a pointer to the way the string is actually encoded. Something like char * kind of thing. And then there are things like what the character actually encoded.

It's probably somewhere along UTF-64 kind of thing where each glyph is indeed a character.

Now when we do

$encoded = mb_convert_encoding ($original); 

several thing can happen:

• the original internal representation doesn't change however it is REINTERPRETED so that the code that show up differs
• the original string that it represent doesn't change however the ENCODING change.

Which one is right?