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+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+/** 
+ * @author Robert Strutts <Bob_586@Yahoo.com>
+ * @copyright (c) 2025, Robert Strutts
+ * @license MIT
+ */
+
+// Setup php for working with Unicode data, if possible
+if (extension_loaded('mbstring')) {
+    mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
+    mb_http_output('UTF-8');
+    mb_language('uni');
+    mb_regex_encoding('UTF-8');
+    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF-8");
+}
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