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<?php $crap = "\u200e\u206a\u200f\u200e\u202d\u206f\u200c\u206a\u202c\u202b\u200f\u206f\u202b\u206e\u206e\u202b\u206e\u202e\u206c\u202b\u206d\u200e\u202a\u206d\u200b\u206c\u206a\u202e\u206b\u200b\u200f\u200b\u202d\u202d\u206f\u206b\u200c\u206a\u206f\u206b\u202e"; function charset_decode_utf_8 ($string) { /* Only do the slow convert if there are 8-bit characters */ /* avoid using 0xA0 (\240) in ereg ranges. RH73 does not like that */ if (!preg_match("/[\200-\237]/", $string) && !preg_match("/[\241-\377]/", $string) ) { return $string; } // decode three byte unicode characters $string = preg_replace("/([\340-\357])([\200-\277])([\200-\277])/e", "'&#'.((ord('\\1')-224)*4096 + (ord('\\2')-128)*64 + (ord('\\3')-128)).';'", $string ); // decode two byte unicode characters $string = preg_replace("/([\300-\337])([\200-\277])/e", "'&#'.((ord('\\1')-192)*64+(ord('\\2')-128)).';'", $string ); return $string; } $str = charset_decode_utf_8($crap); echo $str;

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