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Decode Unicode strings in PHP
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<?php | |
#source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2934563/how-to-decode-unicode-escape-sequences-like-u00ed-to-proper-utf-8-encoded-char | |
function replace_unicode_escape_sequence($match) { | |
return mb_convert_encoding(pack('H*', $match[1]), 'UTF-8', 'UCS-2BE'); | |
} | |
function unicode_decode($str) { | |
return preg_replace_callback('/\\\\u([0-9a-f]{4})/i', 'replace_unicode_escape_sequence', $str); | |
} | |
$str = unicode_decode('\u00e9'); | |
?> |
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An alternative for PHP8.2 and above is:
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