Convert unreadable characters in to Unicode characters

Question

When I call some facebook info from the opengraph I get some names that look like this.

\u0d94\u0db1\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2 \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0dc2\u0dca

Is there a way to convert them in to readable unicode characters using PHP or Javascript? PHP is more preferred. Thanks

Did you search to see whether this question had already been answered? See, e.g. [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365583/how-to-get-the-character-from-unicode-value-in-php) — cjh, Sep 23 '12 at 15:18

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '12 at 15:22

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Use json_decode():

$str = '\u0d94\u0db1\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2';
echo json_decode('"'.$str.'"'); // ඔන්ලි

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answered Sep 23 '12 at 15:22

Mihai Iorga

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 15 '14 at 17:00

The following code allows you to decode the characters as well as re-encode them if necessary

Code :

if (!function_exists('codepoint_encode')) {

    function codepoint_encode($str) {
        return substr(json_encode($str), 1, -1);
    }

}

if (!function_exists('codepoint_decode')) {

    function codepoint_decode($str) {
        return json_decode(sprintf('"%s"', $str));
    }

}

How to use :

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); 

var_dump(codepoint_encode('ඔන්ලි'));
var_dump(codepoint_encode('සින්ග්ලිෂ්'));

var_dump(codepoint_decode('\u0d94\u0db1\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2'));
var_dump(codepoint_decode('\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0dc2\u0dca'));

Output :

string(30) "\u0d94\u0db1\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2"
string(60) "\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0dc2\u0dca"
string(15) "ඔන්ලි"
string(30) "සින්ග්ලිෂ්"

Convert unreadable characters in to Unicode characters

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