May 4, 2012
converting unicode u sequence (like u041a) to normal utf-8 text in php
Question by QuadroVal
I have a string like this
“u041au043bu0443u0431 Test”;
It was decoded by json_encode(), the original string was “Клуб Test” in russian.
when I put it to js like
alert(“u041au043bu0443u0431 Test”);
I get correct displaying, like on the screen. So js
in some way poperly decodes it to normal view.
The question is how can I do the same thing in php, is there any built in method?
THE ANSWER IS:
$json_in = '{"testKey":"u041au043bu0443u0431 Test"}';
$json_out = json_decode($json_in, true);
or
Convert "u041au043bu0443u0431" to "Клуб"
and perform html_entity_decode($str, null, 'UTF-8');
Answer by globin
You probably want HTML entities to print the characters:
- Ӓ for decimal code
- Ī for hex code
Answer by Starx
While converting the data, use JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE as the options
echo json_encode($text, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
