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How to decode Unicode escape sequences like “\u00ed” to proper UTF-8 encoded characters?
I have requested a URL using REST in PHP and I got this result
\u00D8 \u00A7 \u00D9 \ i \u00B3 \u016E\ \u00D8 \u00A7 \u00D9 ... \u00B9 i \u016E \ \u016E Z\u0679z \u0192 ...
but when I request the URL directly from the bowser I get the result as plain readable text
what is this encoding, and how to decode it using PHP to readable text ?
REST client code
I have called this function
$result = RestClient::get($url);
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<?
/**
* Class RestClient
* Wraps HTTP calls using cURL, aimed for accessing and testing RESTful webservice.
* By Diogo Souza da Silva <manifesto@manifesto.blog.br>
*/
class RestClient {
private $curl ;
private $url ;
private $response ="";
private $headers = array();
private $method="GET";
private $params=null;
private $contentType = null;
private $file =null;
/**
* Private Constructor, sets default options
*/
private function __construct() {
$this->curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,true); // This make sure will follow redirects
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,false); // This too
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_HEADER,true); // THis verbose option for extracting the headers
}
/**
* Execute the call to the webservice
* @return RestClient
*/
public function execute() {
if($this->method === "POST") {
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_POST,true);
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$this->params);
} else if($this->method == "GET"){
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_HTTPGET,true);
$this->treatURL();
} else if($this->method === "PUT") {
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_PUT,true);
$this->treatURL();
$this->file = tmpFile();
fwrite($this->file,$this->params);
fseek($this->file,0);
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_INFILE,$this->file);
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_INFILESIZE,strlen($this->params));
} else {
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST,$this->method);
}
if($this->contentType != null) {
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array("Content-Type: ".$this->contentType));
}
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_URL,$this->url);
$r = curl_exec($this->curl);
$this->treatResponse($r); // Extract the headers and response
return $this ;
}
/**
* Treats URL
*/
private function treatURL(){
if(is_array($this->params) && count($this->params) >= 1) { // Transform parameters in key/value pars in URL
if(!strpos($this->url,'?'))
$this->url .= '?' ;
foreach($this->params as $k=>$v) {
$this->url .= "&".urlencode($k)."=".urlencode($v);
}
}
return $this->url;
}
/*
* Treats the Response for extracting the Headers and Response
*/
private function treatResponse($r) {
if($r == null or strlen($r) < 1) {
return;
}
$parts = explode("\n\r",$r); // HTTP packets define that Headers end in a blank line (\n\r) where starts the body
while(preg_match('@HTTP/1.[0-1] 100 Continue@',$parts[0]) or preg_match("@Moved@",$parts[0])) {
// Continue header must be bypass
for($i=1;$i<count($parts);$i++) {
$parts[$i - 1] = trim($parts[$i]);
}
unset($parts[count($parts) - 1]);
}
preg_match("@Content-Type: ([a-zA-Z0-9-]+/?[a-zA-Z0-9-]*)@",$parts[0],$reg);// This extract the content type
$this->headers['content-type'] = $reg[1];
preg_match("@HTTP/1.[0-1] ([0-9]{3}) ([a-zA-Z ]+)@",$parts[0],$reg); // This extracts the response header Code and Message
$this->headers['code'] = $reg[1];
$this->headers['message'] = $reg[2];
$this->response = "";
for($i=1;$i<count($parts);$i++) {//This make sure that exploded response get back togheter
if($i > 1) {
$this->response .= "\n\r";
}
$this->response .= $parts[$i];
}
}
/*
* @return array
*/
public function getHeaders() {
return $this->headers;
}
/*
* @return string
*/
public function getResponse() {
return $this->response ;
}
/*
* HTTP response code (404,401,200,etc)
* @return int
*/
public function getResponseCode() {
return (int) $this->headers['code'];
}
/*
* HTTP response message (Not Found, Continue, etc )
* @return string
*/
public function getResponseMessage() {
return $this->headers['message'];
}
/*
* Content-Type (text/plain, application/xml, etc)
* @return string
*/
public function getResponseContentType() {
return $this->headers['content-type'];
}
/**
* This sets that will not follow redirects
* @return RestClient
*/
public function setNoFollow() {
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,false);
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,false);
return $this;
}
/**
* This closes the connection and release resources
* @return RestClient
*/
public function close() {
curl_close($this->curl);
$this->curl = null ;
if($this->file !=null) {
fclose($this->file);
}
return $this ;
}
/**
* Sets the URL to be Called
* @return RestClient
*/
public function setUrl($url) {
$this->url = $url;
return $this;
}
/**
* Set the Content-Type of the request to be send
* Format like "application/xml" or "text/plain" or other
* @param string $contentType
* @return RestClient
*/
public function setContentType($contentType) {
$this->contentType = $contentType;
return $this;
}
/**
* Set the Credentials for BASIC Authentication
* @param string $user
* @param string $pass
* @return RestClient
*/
public function setCredentials($user,$pass) {
if($user != null) {
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH,CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_USERPWD,"{$user}:{$pass}");
}
return $this;
}
/**
* Set the Request HTTP Method
* For now, only accepts GET and POST
* @param string $method
* @return RestClient
*/
public function setMethod($method) {
$this->method=$method;
return $this;
}
/**
* Set Parameters to be send on the request
* It can be both a key/value par array (as in array("key"=>"value"))
* or a string containing the body of the request, like a XML, JSON or other
* Proper content-type should be set for the body if not a array
* @param mixed $params
* @return RestClient
*/
public function setParameters($params) {
$this->params=$params;
return $this;
}
/**
* Creates the RESTClient
* @param string $url=null [optional]
* @return RestClient
*/
public static function createClient($url=null) {
$client = new RestClient ;
if($url != null) {
$client->setUrl($url);
}
return $client;
}
/**
* Convenience method wrapping a commom POST call
* @param string $url
* @param mixed params
* @param string $user=null [optional]
* @param string $password=null [optional]
* @param string $contentType="multpary/form-data" [optional] commom post (multipart/form-data) as default
* @return RestClient
*/
public static function post($url,$params=null,$user=null,$pwd=null,$contentType="multipart/form-data") {
return self::call("POST",$url,$params,$user,$pwd,$contentType);
}
/**
* Convenience method wrapping a commom PUT call
* @param string $url
* @param string $body
* @param string $user=null [optional]
* @param string $password=null [optional]
* @param string $contentType=null [optional]
* @return RestClient
*/
public static function put($url,$body,$user=null,$pwd=null,$contentType=null) {
return self::call("PUT",$url,$body,$user,$pwd,$contentType);
}
/**
* Convenience method wrapping a commom GET call
* @param string $url
* @param array params
* @param string $user=null [optional]
* @param string $password=null [optional]
* @return RestClient
*/
public static function get($url,array $params=null,$user=null,$pwd=null) {
return self::call("GET",$url,$params,$user,$pwd);
}
/**
* Convenience method wrapping a commom delete call
* @param string $url
* @param array params
* @param string $user=null [optional]
* @param string $password=null [optional]
* @return RestClient
*/
public static function delete($url,array $params=null,$user=null,$pwd=null) {
return self::call("DELETE",$url,$params,$user,$pwd);
}
/**
* Convenience method wrapping a commom custom call
* @param string $method
* @param string $url
* @param string $body
* @param string $user=null [optional]
* @param string $password=null [optional]
* @param string $contentType=null [optional]
* @return RestClient
*/
public static function call($method,$url,$body,$user=null,$pwd=null,$contentType=null) {
return self::createClient($url)
->setParameters($body)
->setMethod($method)
->setCredentials($user,$pwd)
->setContentType($contentType)
->execute()
->close();
}
}
?>
