Re: [PHP] [ask] convert unknown format Japanese string to readable string

It works!
Thanks, Koyama! :)

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:54 AM, KOYAMA Tetsuji <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Morning Star
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> i have a string like this:
>> $string = \u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u306f\u30ef\u30fc\u30c9
>> (Japanese words that say "hello world" in English)
>> How can I convert that $string to Japanese character?
>> It should be 
>
> I found tips in the stackoverflow.
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2934563/how-to-decode-unicode-escape-sequences-like-u00ed-to-proper-utf-8-encoded-cha
>
> I try it.
>
> <?php
> $str = "\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u306f\u30ef\u30fc\u30c9";
>
> function replace_unicode_escape_sequence($match) {
>     return mb_convert_encoding(pack('H*', $match[1]), 'UTF-8', 'UCS-2BE');
> }
> $str = preg_replace_callback('/\\\\u([0-9a-f]{4})/i',
>                              'replace_unicode_escape_sequence', $str);
> var_dump($str);
>
>
> Then it displays:
> string(24) ""
>
> regards,
>
> --
>     KOYAMA Tetsuji
>     [email protected]