UTF8 codes to html in PHP

Question

I have values like

Stra\u00c3\u009fe

and

Aur\u00e9lien

I need them transcoded to say Straße or example 2: Aurélien. How can I archive this using PHP functions? The data origins from php_ldap and an Active Directory source if that helps.

It's in the value of the street property. The other one is part of the CN and givenname property in the AD — ChrJantz, May 18 '15 at 14:06
Ok, those are unicode values then try exploding the unicode foreach(explode('\u', $string) as $new_string) — Demodave, May 18 '15 at 14:17
And what to do with the result? I need to transform the entire string, not just get the unicode values. — ChrJantz, May 18 '15 at 14:22
I'm sorry but I don't get what you are trying to say. I need to do the transcoding but don't see how. Could you might provide some sort of snippet or function to do so? — ChrJantz, May 18 '15 at 14:38
Where are these values coming from to begin with? From a JSON document by any chance? — deceze, May 18 '15 at 14:42
$string = "Aur\u00e9lien"; foreach(explode('\u', $string) as $new_string) { echo html_entity_decode('' . trim($new_string)); } but it isn't complete this sort of works for aur value — Demodave, May 18 '15 at 14:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '15 at 14:43

You need to convert it from Unicode to UTF-8 using multi-byte conversion. A simple example would be

#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');

UTF8 codes to html in PHP

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