Re: [ask] convert unknown format Japanese string to readable string

Hi, On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Morning Star <morning.star.crew@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > i have a string like this: > $string = \u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u306f\u30ef\u30fc\u30c9 > (Japanese words that say "hello world" in English) > How can I convert that $string to Japanese character? > It should be こんにちは世界 I found tips in the stackoverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2934563/how-to-decode-unicode-escape-sequences-like-u00ed-to-proper-utf-8-encoded-cha I try it. <?php $str = "\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u306f\u30ef\u30fc\u30c9"; function replace_unicode_escape_sequence($match) { return mb_convert_encoding(pack('H*', $match[1]), 'UTF-8', 'UCS-2BE'); } $str = preg_replace_callback('/\\\\u([0-9a-f]{4})/i', 'replace_unicode_escape_sequence', $str); var_dump($str); Then it displays: string(24) "こんにちはワード" regards, -- KOYAMA Tetsuji koyama@hoge.org