Question

I’m use third party authorization service for my project. This service return my name like this: u0438u0432u0430u043d, but my name is – иван. How can I convert encoded value (u0438u0432u0430u043d) to иван in php?
Thanks!

Answer 1

You’ve got Unicode hex sequences there – try adapting something like this…

function decodeToUTF8($s) {
    //turn udddd into an HTML entity
    $s=preg_replace('/u(....)/', '&#x$1;', $s);
    //turn entities into UTF-8
    return html_entity_decode($s, ENT_COMPAT, 'utf-8');
}