if (strtolower($default_charset) == 'windows-1253')
return $string;
- /* Only do the slow convert if there are 8-bit characters */
- /* avoid using 0xA0 (\240) in ereg ranges. RH73 does not like that */
- if (! ereg("[\200-\237]", $string) and ! ereg("[\241-\377]", $string) )
+ // don't do decoding when there are no 8bit symbols
+ if (! sq_is8bit($string,'windows-1253'))
return $string;
$cp1253 = array(