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Conversion of mixed ASCII string with multi-byte sequences to proper UTF-8

Please consider the following ASCII string that comes in from a CSV file:

Foo\xe2\x80\x99s Bar

Using PHP, how can one reliably convert this to UTF-8 so that the value is:

Foo’s Bar
Solution

  • If you get the string value printed as Foo\xe2\x80\x99s Bar, then in php the string can be defined like this

    $str = "Foo\\xE2\\x80\\x99s Bar";

    You can get the string printed as Foo’s Bar using the eval() method.

    eval("\$value = \"Foo\\xE2\\x80\\x99s Bar\";");
echo $value;

    The result display Foo’s Bar.