[RESOLVED] How to decode " %u5D16 " in PHP?

[DavidNels]

Hi, how would I go about decoding text like this in PHP:

%u85E4%u5CA1%u85E4%u5DFB%u3068%u5927%u6A4B%u306E%u305E%u307F - %u5D16%u306E%u4E0A%u306E%u30DD%u30CB%u30E7

It appears it is URL encoded, but the php URLDecode function does not properly decode the text to its intended format:

藤岡藤巻と大橋のぞみ - 崖の上の ....

Thanks in advance!

David

[Justa Lol]

Conforming HTML user agents may receive or output a document, or represent a document internally, using any character encoding. A character encoding represents some subset of the document character set. Character encodings such as ISO-8859-1 (commonly referred to as "Latin-1" since it encodes most Western European languages), ISO-8859-5 (which supports Cyrillic), SHIFT_JIS (a Japanese encoding), and euc-jp (another Japanese encoding) save bandwidth by representing only slices of the document character set.

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/charset.html


its all about the charset


or why not just copy it right in?



or did i misunderstand this? btw this doesn't look like a url: Fujioka Fujimaki & Nozomi Ohashi - on the cliff

[sciguyryan]

The issue is that those are UTF-8 encoded so you'll need to decode those first. I hit this a while back and wrote a script to get around it.

function urldecode_utf8($input)
{
  $input =  urldecode($input);
  $result = preg_replace('/%u([0-9a-f]{3,4})/i', '&#x\\1;', $input);
  return html_entity_decode($result, null, 'UTF-8');
}

That should do what you need.

Edit:

One note: ensure that you set the content type header to output UTF-8 contant or it'll render incorrectly.

[DavidNels]

Great! Thanks, worked a charm.