Example use :
echo "Get string from numeric DEC value\n";
var_dump(mb_chr(50319, 'UCS-4BE'));
var_dump(mb_chr(271));
echo "\nGet string from numeric HEX value\n";
var_dump(mb_chr(0xC48F, 'UCS-4BE'));
var_dump(mb_chr(0x010F));
echo "\nGet numeric value of character as DEC string\n";
var_dump(mb_ord('ď', 'UCS-4BE'));
var_dump(mb_ord('ď'));
echo "\nGet numeric value of character as HEX string\n";
var_dump(dechex(mb_ord('ď', 'UCS-4BE')));
var_dump(dechex(mb_ord('ď')));
echo "\nEncode / decode to DEC based HTML entities\n";
var_dump(mb_htmlentities('tchüß', false));
var_dump(mb_html_entity_decode('tchüß'));
echo "\nEncode / decode to HEX based HTML entities\n";
var_dump(mb_htmlentities('tchüß'));
var_dump(mb_html_entity_decode('tchüß'));
echo "\nUse JSON encoding / decoding\n";
var_dump(codepoint_encode("tchüß"));
var_dump(codepoint_decode('tch\u00fc\u00df'));
Output :
Get string from numeric DEC value
string(4) "ď"
string(2) "ď"
Get string from numeric HEX value
string(4) "ď"
string(2) "ď"
Get numeric value of character as DEC int
int(50319)
int(271)
Get numeric value of character as HEX string
string(4) "c48f"
string(3) "10f"
Encode / decode to DEC based HTML entities
string(15) "tchüß"
string(7) "tchüß"
Encode / decode to HEX based HTML entities
string(15) "tchüß"
string(7) "tchüß"
Use JSON encoding / decoding
string(15) "tch\u00fc\u00df"
string(7) "tchüß"