note 79595 added to function.urldecode

B.H. I had troubles converting Unicode-encoded data in $_GET (like this: %u05D8%u05D1%u05E2) which is generated by JavaScript's escape() function to UTF8 for server-side processing. Finally, i've found a simple solution (only 3 lines of code) that does it (at least in my configuration): <?php function utf8_urldecode($str) { $str = preg_replace("/%u([0-9a-f]{3,4})/i","&#x\\1;",urldecode($str)); return html_entity_decode($str,null,'UTF-8');; } ?> note that documentation for html_entity_decode() states that "Support for multi-byte character sets was added at PHP 5.0.0" so this might not work for PHP 4 ---- Server IP: 212.199.163.191 Probable Submitter: 84.94.85.201 (proxied: 84.94.85.201) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/79595 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79595/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79595/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79595/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79595/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79595/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79595/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79595 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/79595 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php