Requirements
  
   You must have GNU Recode 3.5 or higher installed on your system.
   You can download the package from » http://directory.fsf.org/All_GNU_Packages/recode.html.
  
  Warning
   
    The Recode library version 3.6 adds weird characters behind converted
    strings under certain circumstances. Thus it's safer to use Recode v3.5
    or one of the available alternatives like the
    iconv or
    mbstring extension.