Question

How can I get an HTML entity out of a thing like \u00e4, which stands for &aauml; (ä)?

I have backslashes in the string, for escape reason. When I strip slashes I get something like u00e4. I have to strips lashes to be able to store and restore it to the session.

Answer 1

As you can see in the discussions, and answeres, it is a problem, which php can’t handle native (or until now nobody here knows)

i suggest using this very havy function … i mean, this is my solution so far, which i do not like, very much.

function parse_umlaut($string){

        $string = str_replace('u00c4', 'Ä', $string);
        $string = str_replace('u00e4', 'ä', $string);
        $string = str_replace('u00d6', 'Ö', $string);
        $string = str_replace('u00f6', 'ö', $string);
        $string = str_replace('u00dc', 'Ü', $string);
        $string = str_replace('u00fc', 'ü', $string);
        $string = str_replace('u00df', 'ß', $string);

        return $string;
 }