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

i want to try something else. korean. i got no luck when I tried with Korean. 'UCS-2BE' to 'UTF-8' encoding conversion didn't work. i also tried with ISO-2022-KR and EUC-KR to 'UTF-8' , but no luck either. How can I do that? Regards, Marco On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Morning Star <morning.star.crew@gmail.com> wrote: > It works! > Thanks, Koyama! :) > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:54 AM, KOYAMA Tetsuji <koyama@hoge.org> wrote: >> 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