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<?php class utils { private static function replace_unicode_escape_sequence($match) { return mb_convert_encoding(pack('H*', $match[1]), 'UTF-8', 'UCS-2BE'); } public static function to_decode($str) { return preg_replace_callback('/\\\\u([0-9a-f]{4})/i', 'utils::replace_unicode_escape_sequence', $str); } } $str = '{"name":"F\u00f6retag: Betalning"}'; echo utils::to_decode($str);

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