Question

I have a string encoded by Escape in VBScript:

The Escape function returns a string
(in Unicode format) that contains the
contents of charString. All spaces,
punctuation, accented characters, and
other non-ASCII characters are
replaced with %xx encoding, where xx
is equivalent to the hexadecimal
number representing the character.
Unicode characters that have a value
greater than 255 are stored using the
%uxxxx format http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h3607h29%28VS.85%29.aspx.

How do i decode the string in PHP?

Answer 1

urldecode($string)

Although this may not work properly if there are non-ASCII characters encoded in the string. There’s a user-submitted note on the documentation page that provides code for a function called decode_unicode_url($str) that should do the trick if you actually have Unicode characters in the string.