Cannot decode HTML entity in PHP

Question

I want this string:

"Hartn&#195;&#164;ckigkeit zahlt sich aus"

Getting converted to this:

Hartnäckigkeit zahl sich aus

I tried this:

html_entity_decode( "Hartn&#195;&#164;ckigkeit zahlt sich aus", ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')

But did not succeed.

@bcesars base64_enconde() since when is this a php build in function? — Rizier123
– Rizier123, Commented Feb 19, 2015 at 19:00
@user998163 are you sure this html entities are correct? Ã and ¤ — user1939584
– user1939584, Commented Feb 19, 2015 at 19:08

mhall · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-20 09:10:50Z

2

Your encoded string seems off from the beginning, and may have been created somewhere by wrongfully HTML-encoding an UTF-8 string as ISO-8859-1:

Example (source code in UTF-8 format):

echo htmlentities(
    "Hartnäckigkeit zahlt sich aus", ENT_COMPAT, 'ISO-8859-1'
), PHP_EOL;

Output:

Hartn&Atilde;&curren;ckigkeit zahlt sich aus

(same as HartnÃ¤ckigkeit zahlt sich aus)

Use this to decode it:

echo html_entity_decode(
    "Hartn&#195;&#164;ckigkeit zahlt sich aus",
    ENT_COMPAT,
    'ISO-8859-1'
);

Output:

Hartnäckigkeit zahlt sich aus

answered Feb 20, 2015 at 9:10

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Justin Smith · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-19 19:44:46Z

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I got your output doing this:

$test = "Hartn&#228;ckigkeit zahlt sich aus";
echo html_entity_decode($test, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8");

Your entity codes seem off.

answered Feb 19, 2015 at 19:44

Justin Smith

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ErasmoOliveira · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-19 19:14:40Z

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You can use utf8_encode ( $data );

See more about encode here

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

edited Feb 19, 2015 at 19:14

user1939584

answered Feb 19, 2015 at 19:11

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