Percentage encoded process with special characters in PHP

Question

I got a line like:

M% C3% B2nica

So I need to get something like "Mònica".

What is the best way in PHP?

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Bernat May 18, '12 at 21:20

2 answers

The shortest answer: urldecode();

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ilanco May 18, '12 at 21:23

Jeroen · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-18T21:22:35+0000

echo rawurldecode ('M%C3%B2nica'); // prints Mónica

You can use urldecode () or rawurldecode (), but in your case it probably doesn't matter. (more on this here: urlencode vs rawurlencode? )