wp-includes/compat-utf8.php:287Fallback mechanism for replacing invalid spans of UTF-8 bytes.
$bytesstringstringfunction _wp_scrub_utf8_fallback( string $bytes ): string { $bytes_length = strlen( $bytes ); $next_byte_at = 0; $was_at = 0; $invalid_length = 0; $scrubbed = ''; while ( $next_byte_at <= $bytes_length ) { _wp_scan_utf8( $bytes, $next_byte_at, $invalid_length ); if ( $next_byte_at >= $bytes_length ) { if ( 0 === $was_at ) { return $bytes; } return $scrubbed . substr( $bytes, $was_at, $next_byte_at - $was_at - $invalid_length ); } $scrubbed .= substr( $bytes, $was_at, $next_byte_at - $was_at ); $scrubbed .= "\u{FFFD}"; $next_byte_at += $invalid_length; $was_at = $next_byte_at; } return $scrubbed;}Introduced in 6.9.0. Unchanged from 6.9.7 through 7.1.0.
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