To get Unicode numbers out of a UTF-8 string, this can be used, for example:
<?php
print mb_encode_numericentity ('sāш日', array (0x0, 0xffff, 0, 0xffff), 'UTF-8');
?>
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
mb_encode_numericentity — Encode character to HTML numeric string reference
$string,$map,$encoding = null,$hex = false
Converts
specified character codes in string string
from character code to HTML numeric character reference.
stringThe string being encoded.
map
map is array specifies code area to
convert.
encodingThe encoding
parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or null, the internal character
encoding value will be used.
hexWhether the returned entity reference should be in hexadecimal notation (otherwise it is in decimal notation).
The converted string.
Throws a ValueError if
map is not a list of ints.
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.4.0 |
mb_encode_numericentity() now throws a
ValueError if map
is not a list of ints.
|
| 8.0.0 |
encoding is nullable now.
|
Example #1 map example
<?php
$convmap = array (
int start_code1, int end_code1, int offset1, int mask1,
int start_code2, int end_code2, int offset2, int mask2,
........
int start_codeN, int end_codeN, int offsetN, int maskN );
// Specify Unicode value for start_codeN and end_codeN
// Add offsetN to value and take bit-wise 'AND' with maskN, then
// it converts value to numeric string reference.
?>
Example #2 mb_encode_numericentity() example
<?php
/* Convert Left side of ISO-8859-1 to HTML numeric character reference */
$convmap = array(0x80, 0xff, 0, 0xff);
$str = mb_encode_numericentity($str, $convmap, "ISO-8859-1");
/* Convert user defined SJIS-win code in block 95-104 to numeric
string reference */
$convmap = array(
0xe000, 0xe03e, 0x1040, 0xffff,
0xe03f, 0xe0bb, 0x1041, 0xffff,
0xe0bc, 0xe0fa, 0x1084, 0xffff,
0xe0fb, 0xe177, 0x1085, 0xffff,
0xe178, 0xe1b6, 0x10c8, 0xffff,
0xe1b7, 0xe233, 0x10c9, 0xffff,
0xe234, 0xe272, 0x110c, 0xffff,
0xe273, 0xe2ef, 0x110d, 0xffff,
0xe2f0, 0xe32e, 0x1150, 0xffff,
0xe32f, 0xe3ab, 0x1151, 0xffff );
$str = mb_encode_numericentity($str, $convmap, "sjis-win");
?>To get Unicode numbers out of a UTF-8 string, this can be used, for example:
<?php
print mb_encode_numericentity ('sāш日', array (0x0, 0xffff, 0, 0xffff), 'UTF-8');
?>Here is a better explanation of convmap:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35854535/better-explanation-of-convmap-in-mb-encode-numericentityWe were experiencing difficulties with PHP/Sablotron on Solaris; placing HTML character references into the XSL transformation, when set to output UTF-8, converts them back into UTF8 encoded chars. This was then a problem for non unicode storage. Using a bit of code from http://homepage.mac.com/marko/ the following function converts the string back to character references:
function utf2html ($utf2html_string)
{
$f = 0xffff;
$convmap = array(
/* <!ENTITY % HTMLlat1 PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin 1//EN//HTML">
%HTMLlat1; */
160, 255, 0, $f,
/* <!ENTITY % HTMLsymbol PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Symbols//EN//HTML">
%HTMLsymbol; */
402, 402, 0, $f, 913, 929, 0, $f, 931, 937, 0, $f,
945, 969, 0, $f, 977, 978, 0, $f, 982, 982, 0, $f,
8226, 8226, 0, $f, 8230, 8230, 0, $f, 8242, 8243, 0, $f,
8254, 8254, 0, $f, 8260, 8260, 0, $f, 8465, 8465, 0, $f,
8472, 8472, 0, $f, 8476, 8476, 0, $f, 8482, 8482, 0, $f,
8501, 8501, 0, $f, 8592, 8596, 0, $f, 8629, 8629, 0, $f,
8656, 8660, 0, $f, 8704, 8704, 0, $f, 8706, 8707, 0, $f,
8709, 8709, 0, $f, 8711, 8713, 0, $f, 8715, 8715, 0, $f,
8719, 8719, 0, $f, 8721, 8722, 0, $f, 8727, 8727, 0, $f,
8730, 8730, 0, $f, 8733, 8734, 0, $f, 8736, 8736, 0, $f,
8743, 8747, 0, $f, 8756, 8756, 0, $f, 8764, 8764, 0, $f,
8773, 8773, 0, $f, 8776, 8776, 0, $f, 8800, 8801, 0, $f,
8804, 8805, 0, $f, 8834, 8836, 0, $f, 8838, 8839, 0, $f,
8853, 8853, 0, $f, 8855, 8855, 0, $f, 8869, 8869, 0, $f,
8901, 8901, 0, $f, 8968, 8971, 0, $f, 9001, 9002, 0, $f,
9674, 9674, 0, $f, 9824, 9824, 0, $f, 9827, 9827, 0, $f,
9829, 9830, 0, $f,
/* <!ENTITY % HTMLspecial PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Special//EN//HTML">
%HTMLspecial; */
/* These ones are excluded to enable HTML: 34, 38, 60, 62 */
338, 339, 0, $f, 352, 353, 0, $f, 376, 376, 0, $f,
710, 710, 0, $f, 732, 732, 0, $f, 8194, 8195, 0, $f,
8201, 8201, 0, $f, 8204, 8207, 0, $f, 8211, 8212, 0, $f,
8216, 8218, 0, $f, 8218, 8218, 0, $f, 8220, 8222, 0, $f,
8224, 8225, 0, $f, 8240, 8240, 0, $f, 8249, 8250, 0, $f,
8364, 8364, 0, $f);
return mb_encode_numericentity($utf2html_string, $convmap, "UTF-8");
}To improve handling of EURO-Symbols in dan at boxuk dot com's function add the following line to $convmap:
128,128,0, $f,