Explicitly define the encoding.
bug #10899 Explicitly define the encoding. (jakzal)

This PR was merged into the 2.3 branch.

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Explicitly define the encoding.

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets | -
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | -

Credits for discovering it go to @nicolas-grekas. Cheers!

Travis for PHP 5.6 cannot be enabled yet as there's one more test failing.

re #10714 #10714

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619ff58 Explicitly define the encoding.
Merge branch '2.3' into 2.4

* 2.3:
  Explicitly define the encoding.