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Asked: 2026-05-24T12:48:40+00:00

I need to convert %F3%BE%AE%A2 to this char in PHP. When I tried using

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I need to convert %F3%BE%AE%A2 to this char “” in PHP. When I tried using

rawurldecode('%F3%BE%AE%A2');

then it gives 2 chars instead of 1 char.

How can I convert it properly?

EDIT:
To be more specific it’s an UTF-16 surrogate char.it gives \udbba\udfa2 in javascript.Now
if i want to send data via javascript API then i could easily send “” as a single character.
But for security reasons i need to use PHP.That’s where the problem starts.Decoding '%F3%BE%AE%A2' with rawurldecode() along with utf-8 header doesn’t seem to be giving me the char i want.
Wish i have explained it.Thanks for your appreciations.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Actually rawurldecode() is giving you the correct result. That character consists of four bytes when encoded in utf-8 and the rule in url encoding is to convert each byte to %XX notation. rawurldecode() is giving you back those 4 bytes but probably you have not set your page’s encoding to utf-8 so your browser is misinterpreting those bytes. add this to your <head>:

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

    and you should see the right character.

    This is a test page I made:

    <html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
    <?php echo rawurldecode('%F3%BE%AE%A2'); ?>
</body>
</html>

    what I see in my browser:

    exactly the character you want to see.

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