can I get the unicode value of a character or vise versa with php?

Question

Is it possible to input a character and get the unicode value back? for example, i can put ⽇ in html to output \"⽇\", is it possible to give that character as an a

Answer 1

You can use the following functions

For encoding

string utf8_encode ( string $data )

http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php

For decoding

string utf8_decode ( string $data )

http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php

Also check

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php