How do you get the glyph for a character encoded as 'ō' from a utf-8 encoded database field usi
- by AE
I have a MySQL database table with a collation of 'utf8_general_ci' and the value in the field is:
x & #299; bán yá wén (without the spaces).
When this is converted (for example by StackOverflow's editor) it looks like this:
xī bán yá wén
where the second character looks like a lower case i with a bar over the top.
In PHP, what function converts the & #299 ; entity into the ī character?
I've tried using html_entity_decode($str,ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8'), however I get characters like the following:
yÄ«n wén or zhÅ•ng wén
I'm pretty sure there's something I don't understand about the decoding, which is why I'm using the wrong function. Can anyone shed some light on how to get the single character glyph that's represented by the entity & #299 and similar high-number characters above 255?
Many thanks,
AE
