Question

On the website I am developing, I’m using a function that get information about events taken from a group on facebook.
I noticed that using the graph protocol, the text contained in the “description” of the created array , there are strange characters like “\ u00b” or “\ n” for new lines.
How can I do to display the content formatted correctly?
thanks in advance
Piero

Answer 1

It is called unicode_decode ( http://webarto.com/83/php-unicode_decode-5.3 ), it will come out in PHP6 until then…

function unicode_decode($string) {

    $string = preg_replace_callback('#\\\\u([0-9a-f]{4})#ism',
    create_function('$matches', 'return mb_convert_encoding(pack("H*", $matches[1]), "UTF-8", "UCS-2BE");'), 
    $string);

    return $string;

}

Raska Top\u010dagi\u0107
Raska Topčagić

If you are not using PHP, sorry…

Better solution:

echo json_decode('Raska Top\u010dagi\u0107'); # Raska Topčagić