php and html output and display UTF-16 characters

Question

I am having some difficulty understanding how to output a UTF-16 string with PHP and having it properly displayed in the web page..

The string is from a game (it is a name) and can contain any of the characters.

I would like to output the given string "ムName" as ムName which would be interpreted by the browser as the original string ("ムName"). Thanks.

user557846 · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-02 03:29:41Z

1

<?php
$val="ムName";
echo mb_convert_encoding($val, 'HTML-ENTITIES','auto');
?>

demo: http://codepad.viper-7.com/YFnx4a (view frame source to see the encoding)

answered Nov 2, 2013 at 3:29

user557846

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2 Comments

But why would that be necessary in the first place? Would it not be much wiser to convert the string to UTF-8?

Thanks! This has worked on an initial test I am gonna get some stuff from the game and test it. Thanks again!