note 68491 added to function.html-entity-decode

Here is the ultimate functions to convert HTML entities to
UTF-8 :
The main function is htmlentities2utf8
Others are helper functions

function chr_utf8($code)
	{
		if ($code < 0) return false;
		elseif ($code < 128) return chr($code);
		elseif ($code < 160) // Remove Windows Illegals Cars
		{
			if ($code==128) $code=8364;
			elseif ($code==129) $code=160; // not affected
			elseif ($code==130) $code=8218;
			elseif ($code==131) $code=402;
			elseif ($code==132) $code=8222;
			elseif ($code==133) $code=8230;
			elseif ($code==134) $code=8224;
			elseif ($code==135) $code=8225;
			elseif ($code==136) $code=710;
			elseif ($code==137) $code=8240;
			elseif ($code==138) $code=352;
			elseif ($code==139) $code=8249;
			elseif ($code==140) $code=338;
			elseif ($code==141) $code=160; // not affected
			elseif ($code==142) $code=381;
			elseif ($code==143) $code=160; // not affected
			elseif ($code==144) $code=160; // not affected
			elseif ($code==145) $code=8216;
			elseif ($code==146) $code=8217;
			elseif ($code==147) $code=8220;
			elseif ($code==148) $code=8221;
			elseif ($code==149) $code=8226;
			elseif ($code==150) $code=8211;
			elseif ($code==151) $code=8212;
			elseif ($code==152) $code=732;
			elseif ($code==153) $code=8482;
			elseif ($code==154) $code=353;
			elseif ($code==155) $code=8250;
			elseif ($code==156) $code=339;
			elseif ($code==157) $code=160; // not affected
			elseif ($code==158) $code=382;
			elseif ($code==159) $code=376;
		}
		if ($code < 2048) return chr(192 | ($code >> 6))
. chr(128 | ($code & 63));
		elseif ($code < 65536) return chr(224 | ($code >>
12)) . chr(128 | (($code >> 6) & 63)) . chr(128 |
($code & 63));
		else return chr(240 | ($code >> 18)) . chr(128 |
(($code >> 12) & 63)) . chr(128 | (($code >>
6) & 63)) . chr(128 | ($code & 63));
	}

	// Callback for
preg_replace_callback('~&(#(x?))?([^;]+);~',
'html_entity_replace', $str);
	function html_entity_replace($matches)
	{
	    if ($matches[2])
	    {
	        return chr_utf8(hexdec($matches[3]));
	    } elseif ($matches[1])
	    {
	        return chr_utf8($matches[3]);
	    }
	    switch ($matches[3])
	    {
			case "nbsp": return chr_utf8(160);
			case "iexcl": return chr_utf8(161);
			case "cent": return chr_utf8(162);
			case "pound": return chr_utf8(163);
			case "curren": return chr_utf8(164);
			case "yen": return chr_utf8(165);
			//... etc with all named HTML entities
		}
		return false;
	}
	
	function htmlentities2utf8 ($string) // because of the
html_entity_decode() bug with UTF-8
	{
		$string =
preg_replace_callback('~&(#(x?))?([^;]+);~',
'html_entity_replace', $string);
		return $string;
	}
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Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-de
code.php
Edit        -- http://master.p
hp.net/note/edit/68491
Del: integrated  -- ht
tp://master.php.net/note/delete/68491/integrated
Del: useless     -- http:
//master.php.net/note/delete/68491/useless
Del: bad code    -- http
://master.php.net/note/delete/68491/bad+code
Del: spam        -- http://m
aster.php.net/note/delete/68491/spam
Del: non-english -- h
ttp://master.php.net/note/delete/68491/non-english
Del: in docs     -- http:
//master.php.net/note/delete/68491/in+docs
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