diff --git a/demos/demo.mp3header.php b/demos/demo.mp3header.php
index 222fe40e..57c241c8 100644
--- a/demos/demo.mp3header.php
+++ b/demos/demo.mp3header.php
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ function RoughTranslateUnicodeToASCII($rawdata, $frame_textencoding) {
 				break;
 
 			case 3: // UTF-8 encoded Unicode. Terminated with $00.
-				$asciidata = utf8_decode($rawdata);
+				$asciidata = utf8_to_iso8859_1($rawdata);
 				break;
 
 			case 255: // Unicode, Big-Endian. Terminated with $00 00.
@@ -929,43 +929,40 @@ function image_type_to_mime_type($imagetypeid) {
 	}
 }
 
-if (!function_exists('utf8_decode')) {
-	// PHP has this function built-in if it's configured with the --with-xml option
-	// This version of the function is only provided in case XML isn't installed
-	function utf8_decode($utf8text) {
-		// http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php
-		// bytes  bits  representation
-		//   1     7    0bbbbbbb
-		//   2     11   110bbbbb 10bbbbbb
-		//   3     16   1110bbbb 10bbbbbb 10bbbbbb
-		//   4     21   11110bbb 10bbbbbb 10bbbbbb 10bbbbbb
-
-		$utf8length = strlen($utf8text);
-		$decodedtext = '';
-		for ($i = 0; $i < $utf8length; $i++) {
-			if ((ord($utf8text[$i]) & 0x80) == 0) {
-				$decodedtext .= $utf8text[$i];
-			} elseif ((ord($utf8text[$i]) & 0xF0) == 0xF0) {
-				$decodedtext .= '?';
-				$i += 3;
-			} elseif ((ord($utf8text[$i]) & 0xE0) == 0xE0) {
+function utf8_to_iso8859_1($utf8text) {
+	// http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php
+	// bytes  bits  representation
+	//   1     7    0bbbbbbb
+	//   2     11   110bbbbb 10bbbbbb
+	//   3     16   1110bbbb 10bbbbbb 10bbbbbb
+	//   4     21   11110bbb 10bbbbbb 10bbbbbb 10bbbbbb
+
+	$utf8length = strlen($utf8text);
+	$decodedtext = '';
+	for ($i = 0; $i < $utf8length; $i++) {
+		if ((ord($utf8text[$i]) & 0x80) == 0) {
+			$decodedtext .= $utf8text[$i];
+		} elseif ((ord($utf8text[$i]) & 0xF0) == 0xF0) {
+			$decodedtext .= '?';
+			$i += 3;
+		} elseif ((ord($utf8text[$i]) & 0xE0) == 0xE0) {
+			$decodedtext .= '?';
+			$i += 2;
+		} elseif ((ord($utf8text[$i]) & 0xC0) == 0xC0) {
+			//   2     11   110bbbbb 10bbbbbb
+			$decodedchar = Bin2Dec(substr(Dec2Bin(ord($utf8text[$i])), 3, 5).substr(Dec2Bin(ord($utf8text[($i + 1)])), 2, 6));
+			if ($decodedchar <= 255) {
+				$decodedtext .= chr($decodedchar);
+			} else {
 				$decodedtext .= '?';
-				$i += 2;
-			} elseif ((ord($utf8text[$i]) & 0xC0) == 0xC0) {
-				//   2     11   110bbbbb 10bbbbbb
-				$decodedchar = Bin2Dec(substr(Dec2Bin(ord($utf8text[$i])), 3, 5).substr(Dec2Bin(ord($utf8text[($i + 1)])), 2, 6));
-				if ($decodedchar <= 255) {
-					$decodedtext .= chr($decodedchar);
-				} else {
-					$decodedtext .= '?';
-				}
-				$i += 1;
 			}
+			$i += 1;
 		}
-		return $decodedtext;
 	}
+	return $decodedtext;
 }
 
+
 if (!function_exists('DateMac2Unix')) {
 	function DateMac2Unix($macdate) {
 		// Macintosh timestamp: seconds since 00:00h January 1, 1904
diff --git a/getid3/getid3.lib.php b/getid3/getid3.lib.php
index c154fbda..d84bb4b6 100644
--- a/getid3/getid3.lib.php
+++ b/getid3/getid3.lib.php
@@ -871,10 +871,6 @@ public static function iconv_fallback_int_utf8($charval) {
 	 * @return string
 	 */
 	public static function iconv_fallback_iso88591_utf8($string, $bom=false) {
-		if (function_exists('utf8_encode')) {
-			return utf8_encode($string);
-		}
-		// utf8_encode() unavailable, use getID3()'s iconv_fallback() conversions (possibly PHP is compiled without XML support)
 		$newcharstring = '';
 		if ($bom) {
 			$newcharstring .= "\xEF\xBB\xBF";
@@ -943,10 +939,6 @@ public static function iconv_fallback_iso88591_utf16($string) {
 	 * @return string
 	 */
 	public static function iconv_fallback_utf8_iso88591($string) {
-		if (function_exists('utf8_decode')) {
-			return utf8_decode($string);
-		}
-		// utf8_decode() unavailable, use getID3()'s iconv_fallback() conversions (possibly PHP is compiled without XML support)
 		$newcharstring = '';
 		$offset = 0;
 		$stringlength = strlen($string);