How do you print raw UTF-8 characters from their numbers? [PHP]

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Published on 2010-05-01T00:59:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 1:07 UTC
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Say I wanted to print a ÿ (latin small y with diaeresis) from it's Unicode/UTF-8 number of "U+00FF" or hex of "c3 bf". How can I do that in PHP?

Note: In order for it show correctly in a browser I know that the first step is

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

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