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mb_chr

(PHP 7 >= 7.2.0, PHP 8)

mb_chr — Return character by Unicode code point value

Description

mb_chr(int $codepoint, ?string $encoding = null): string|false

Returns a string containing the character specified by the Unicode code point value, encoded in the specified encoding.

This function complements mb_ord().

Parameters

codepoint: A Unicode codepoint value, e.g. 128024 for U+1F418 ELEPHANT
encoding: The encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or null, the internal character encoding value will be used.

Return Values

A string containing the requested character, if it can be represented in the specified encoding or false on failure.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	`encoding` is nullable now.

Examples

Example #1 Testing different code points

<?php
$values = [65, 63, 0x20AC, 128024];
foreach ($values as $value) {
    var_dump(mb_chr($value, 'UTF-8'));
    var_dump(mb_chr($value, 'ISO-8859-1'));
}
?>

The above example will output:

string(1) "A"
string(1) "A"
string(1) "?"
string(1) "?"
string(3) "€"
bool(false)
string(4) "🐘"
bool(false)

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boss3333 at laposte dot net ¶

5 years ago


To convert the utf16 or utf8 decimal values (utf-8 can translate both encodings) to ascii characters using mb_ord, follow these steps:

Starting value:

1_Zvpxs4pf

Value converted to decimal value utf-16 or utf-8 (see ascii coding table):

49,95,90,118,112,120,115,52,112,102

recovery with mb_ord:

use: $ char = mb_chr ($ decimalValue, 'UTF-8');
return the correct character;

1, _, Z, v, p, x, s, 4, p, f

example:
$ start_String = 1_Zvpxs4pf;
$ start_String_to_Decimal = 49959011811212011552112102;
(decimal value of each character add in an array);
$ tab = [49, 95, 90, 118, 112, 120, 115, 52, 112, 102];
$ size = sizeof ($ tab);

$ tmpStr = '';

for ($ i = 0; $ i <$ size; $ i ++)
{
$ tmpStr. = mb_chr ($ tab [$ i], 'UTF-8');
}

echo $ tmpStr;

1_Zvpxs4pf

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