note 124827 added to function.mb-ord

You can forget about DIY uniord() https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ord.php#42778 $array['Б'] = uniord('Б'); $array['🚷'] = uniord('🚷'); $array['mb_ord Б'] = mb_ord('Б'); $array['mb_ord 🚷'] = mb_ord('🚷'); function uniord($charUTF8) { $charUCS4 = mb_convert_encoding($charUTF8, 'UCS-4BE', 'UTF-8'); $byte1 = ord(substr($charUCS4, 0, 1)); $byte2 = ord(substr($charUCS4, 1, 1)); $byte3 = ord(substr($charUCS4, 2, 1)); $byte4 = ord(substr($charUCS4, 3, 1)); return ($byte1 << 32) + ($byte2 << 16) + ($byte3 << 8) + $byte4; } var_export($array); Shows: array ( 'Б' => 1041, '🚷' => 128695, 'mb_ord Б' => 1041, 'mb_ord 🚷' => 128695, ) https://unicode-table.com/en/0411/ Б Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary UTF-8 D0 91 208 145 53393 11010000 10010001 UTF-16BE 04 11 4 17 1041 00000100 00010001 UTF-16LE 11 04 17 4 4356 00010001 00000100 UTF-32BE 00 00 04 11 0 0 4 17 1041 00000000 00000000 00000100 00010001 UTF-32LE 11 04 00 00 17 4 0 0 285474816 00010001 00000100 00000000 00000000 https://unicode-table.com/en/1F6B7/ 🚷 Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary UTF-8 F0 9F 9A B7 240 159 154 183 4036991671 11110000 10011111 10011010 10110111 UTF-16BE D8 3D DE B7 216 61 222 183 3627933367 11011000 00111101 11011110 10110111 UTF-16LE 3D D8 B7 DE 61 216 183 222 1037613022 00111101 11011000 10110111 11011110 UTF-32BE 00 01 F6 B7 0 1 246 183 128695 00000000 00000001 11110110 10110111 UTF-32LE B7 F6 01 00 183 246 1 0 3086352640 10110111 11110110 00000001 00000000 ---- Server IP: 45.112.84.4 Probable Submitter: 185.85.3.195 (proxied: 94.242.24.132) ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-ord.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/124827 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124827/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124827/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124827/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124827/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124827/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124827/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124827 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/124827 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php