How to Convert Html Codes to Relevant Unicode Characters - php

Question

Actually, I have googled a Lot, And I have explored this forum too, but this is my second day, and I could not find the solution.
My Problem is that I want to convert the Html Codes
باخ
to its equallent unicode characters
خ ا ب
Actually I do not want to convert all the html symbols to unicode characters. I only want to convert the arabic / urdu html code to unicode characters. The range of these characters is from ؛ To ۹ If there is no any PHP function then How can I replace the codes with their equallent unicode character in one go?

Answer 1

I think you're looking for:
html_entity_decode('باخ', ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
When you go from ب to ب, that's called decoding. Doing the opposite is called encoding.
As for replacing only characters from ؛ to ۹ maybe try something like this.
<?php
// Random set of entities, two are outside the 1563 - 1785 range.
$entities = '؛؜<لñ۸۹';
// Matches entities from 1500 to 1799, not perfect, I know.
preg_match_all('/&#1[5-7][0-9]{2};/', $entities, $matches);
$entityRegex = array(); // Will hold the entity code regular expression.
$decodedCharacters = array(); // Will hold the decoded characters.
foreach ($matches[0] as $entity)
{
// Convert the entity to human-readable character.
$unicodeCharacter = html_entity_decode($entity, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
array_push($entityRegex, "/$entity/");
array_push($decodedCharacters, $unicodeCharacter);
}
// Replace all of the matched entities with the human-readable character.
$replaced = preg_replace($entityRegex, $decodedCharacters, $entities);
?>
That's as close as I can get to solving this. Hopefully, this helps a little. It's 5:00am where I am now, so I'm off to sleep! :)

Answer 2

did you try the utf-8 encoding in html head?
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Answer 3

try this
<?php
$trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
foreach($trans_tbl as $k => $v)
{
$ttr[$v] = utf8_encode($k);
}
$text = 'بب....;&#1582';
$text = strtr($text, $ttr);
echo $text;
?>
for mysql solution you can set the character set as
$mysqli = new mysqli($host, $user, $pass, $db);
if (!$mysqli->set_charset("utf8")) {
die("error");
}