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<?php $str = "Please join me in this prayer. &#55357;&#56911;&#10084;&#65039;"; var_export( preg_replace_callback( "/&#(\d{5});&#(\d{5});/", function($m) { return iconv("UTF-16BE", "UTF-8", hex2bin(dechex($m[1]) . dechex($m[2]))); }, $str ) );
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