- html_entity_decode
- Parameters
- Return Values
- Html to utf8 converter
- What is a html to utf8 converter?
- Html to utf8 converter examples
- UTF-8 Converter
- What is UTF8?
- What can you do with UTF8 Encoder?
- Example of Text
- Changing an HTML page to Unicode
- Answer
- Step 1: Save the data as UTF-8
- Step 2: Declare the encoding in your page
- Step 3: Ensure that your server does the right thing
- Further reading
- Data uri to utf8 converter
- What is a data uri to utf8 converter?
- Data uri to utf8 converter examples
html_entity_decode
html_entity_decode() is the opposite of htmlentities() in that it converts HTML entities in the string to their corresponding characters.
More precisely, this function decodes all the entities (including all numeric entities) that a) are necessarily valid for the chosen document type — i.e., for XML, this function does not decode named entities that might be defined in some DTD — and b) whose character or characters are in the coded character set associated with the chosen encoding and are permitted in the chosen document type. All other entities are left as is.
Parameters
A bitmask of one or more of the following flags, which specify how to handle quotes and which document type to use. The default is ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE | ENT_HTML401 .
Constant Name | Description |
---|---|
ENT_COMPAT | Will convert double-quotes and leave single-quotes alone. |
ENT_QUOTES | Will convert both double and single quotes. |
ENT_NOQUOTES | Will leave both double and single quotes unconverted. |
ENT_SUBSTITUTE | Replace invalid code unit sequences with a Unicode Replacement Character U+FFFD (UTF-8) or � (otherwise) instead of returning an empty string. |
ENT_HTML401 | Handle code as HTML 4.01. |
ENT_XML1 | Handle code as XML 1. |
ENT_XHTML | Handle code as XHTML. |
ENT_HTML5 | Handle code as HTML 5. |
An optional argument defining the encoding used when converting characters.
If omitted, encoding defaults to the value of the default_charset configuration option.
Although this argument is technically optional, you are highly encouraged to specify the correct value for your code if the default_charset configuration option may be set incorrectly for the given input.
The following character sets are supported:
Charset | Aliases | Description |
---|---|---|
ISO-8859-1 | ISO8859-1 | Western European, Latin-1. |
ISO-8859-5 | ISO8859-5 | Little used cyrillic charset (Latin/Cyrillic). |
ISO-8859-15 | ISO8859-15 | Western European, Latin-9. Adds the Euro sign, French and Finnish letters missing in Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1). |
UTF-8 | ASCII compatible multi-byte 8-bit Unicode. | |
cp866 | ibm866, 866 | DOS-specific Cyrillic charset. |
cp1251 | Windows-1251, win-1251, 1251 | Windows-specific Cyrillic charset. |
cp1252 | Windows-1252, 1252 | Windows specific charset for Western European. |
KOI8-R | koi8-ru, koi8r | Russian. |
BIG5 | 950 | Traditional Chinese, mainly used in Taiwan. |
GB2312 | 936 | Simplified Chinese, national standard character set. |
BIG5-HKSCS | Big5 with Hong Kong extensions, Traditional Chinese. | |
Shift_JIS | SJIS, SJIS-win, cp932, 932 | Japanese |
EUC-JP | EUCJP, eucJP-win | Japanese |
MacRoman | Charset that was used by Mac OS. | |
» | An empty string activates detection from script encoding (Zend multibyte), default_charset and current locale (see nl_langinfo() and setlocale() ), in this order. Not recommended. |
Note: Any other character sets are not recognized. The default encoding will be used instead and a warning will be emitted.
Return Values
Returns the decoded string.
Html to utf8 converter
World’s simplest browser-based HTML entities to UTF8 converter. Just import your HTML escape codes in the editor on the left and you will instantly get UTF8 values on the right. Free, quick, and very powerful. Import HTML – get UTF8. Created by geeks from team Browserling.
What is a html to utf8 converter?
With this tool you can quickly decode HTML escape codes back to human-readable UTF8 strings. It is able to convert hexadecimal and decimal HTML entities, as well as supports named HTML entities. Quick and powerful!
Html to utf8 converter examples
In this example we convert a complete and fully-functional HTML web page that was previously HTML-escaped into readable HTML code.
This example converts hexadecimal HTML entities into readable text combined with UTF8 symbols and icons of various transports.
You can pass input to this tool via ?input query argument and it will automatically compute output. Here’s how to type it in your browser’s address bar. Click to try!
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UTF-8 Converter
UTF8 Converter helps to convert HTML to Plain text, which is supported by all the browsers to save and share Encoded Text.
What is UTF8?
UTF-8 is a character encoding representing all characters in the Unicode standard. It is widely used on the web and is the default character encoding for HTML5. One of the main benefits of UTF-8 is that it can support the full range of Unicode characters while being backward-compatible with ASCII. It means that you can use UTF-8 to encode any character in the Unicode standard, but if you only need to encode ASCII characters (which are the most common), UTF-8 will take up the same amount of space as ASCII.
UTF-8 encodes each Unicode character as a sequence of one to four bytes. ASCII characters are encoded as a single byte, so they are the same in UTF-8 as in ASCII. Non-ASCII characters are encoded as a sequence of two to four bytes. UTF-8 can encode all possible characters, or code points, in Unicode.
What can you do with UTF8 Encoder?
- This tool helps you to convert your TEXT or HTML data to UTF8 encoded String/Data.
- This tool allows loading the String data URL converting to UTF8. Click on the URL button, Enter URL and Submit.
- This tool supports loading the data File to transform to UTF8 Text. Click on the Upload button and select File.
- UTF8 Converter Online works well on Windows, MAC, Linux, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.
Example of Text
Changing an HTML page to Unicode
This page will help you change the character encoding of your HTML page to UTF-8.
Answer
Below we summarise the information you need to convert a simple page to a Unicode character encoding. Follow the links to other articles on the site if you need to get detailed information about any step.
For much more detailed advice about converting complex sites, software and data to Unicode, see the article Migrating to Unicode.
Step 1: Save the data as UTF-8
It will not be sufficient to just change the declarations inside your pages to say that the page is encoded in UTF-8. You must ensure that your data is actually encoded, ie. saved, in UTF-8.
If you are working with hand-edited files then you should use the options of your editor to save the file in UTF-8 rather than the encoding you were using. If you are building files from scripts and databases, you should ensure that the data is converted as necessary and that the correct parameters are set in your scripting environment.
Note that you may have to ensure that the data does not include a UTF-8 signature, also known as a byte-order mark (BOM).
Step 2: Declare the encoding in your page
You should change the character encoding declaration in your page (or add one if you don’t already declare it).
In its simplest form, this looks as follows, and should come at the beginning of the head element in your HTML code.
Step 3: Ensure that your server does the right thing
Although your data is in UTF-8 and you have declared it in the page, your server may still be serving the page with an accompanying HTTP header that says it is something else.
Test it by putting the URL of your page in this form. It will take you to the Internationalization Checker. Look in the table for the row with the title HTTP Content-Type , under Character Encoding , and check that it says either UTF-8 or No encoding information found .
If the HTTP Content-Type shows an encoding other than UTF-8 you’ll need to take steps to rectify it, because the declaration in the HTTP header will override information inside the page.
Server admin privileges are needed to change the encoding sent in the HTTP header, though you may be able to do so yourself even if you are serving files via an ISP. Consult your server admin person. See the explanation of one way to do this for an Apache server.
Further reading
- Getting started? Introducing Character Sets and Encodings
- Tutorial, Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS
- Migrating to Unicode A much more in-depth article about changing software and data to Unicode.
- Authoring HTML & CSS
- Characters
- Changing to UTF-8
Data uri to utf8 converter
World’s simplest browser-based Data URL to UTF8 converter. Just import your Data URI-encoded string in the editor on the left and you will instantly get a decoded UTF8 string on the right. Free, quick, and very powerful. Import a Data URL – get UTF8. Created by geeks from team Browserling.
What is a data uri to utf8 converter?
With this tool you can easily convert Data URIs (also known as Data URLs) to strings in UTF8 encoding. A Data URL is almost the same as raw base-64 encoding but with only one difference — the mime type is written in front of the data. Quick and powerful!
Data uri to utf8 converter examples
This example decodes a plain text message that was previously encoded as a Data URI back to humarn-readable UTF8 text.
You can pass input to this tool via ?input query argument and it will automatically compute output. Here’s how to type it in your browser’s address bar. Click to try!
https:// onlineutf8tools.com/convert-data-uri-to-utf8 ?input=data%3Atext%2Fplain%3Bbase64%2CRW5jb2RpbmcgaXMgaGFsZi1hcnQsIGhhbGYtbWFnaWMu
Created with love by
We’re Browserling — a friendly and fun cross-browser testing company powered by alien technology. At Browserling we love to make developers’ lives easier, so we created this collection of online UTF8 tools. Unlike many other tools, we made our tools free, without intrusive ads, and with the simplest possible user interface. Our online UTF8 tools are actually powered by our programming tools that we created over the last couple of years. Check them out!
If you love our tools, then we love you, too! Use coupon code UTF8LING to get a discount at Browserling.
All conversions and calculations are done in your browser using JavaScript. We don’t send a single bit about your input data to our servers. There is no server-side processing at all. We use Google Analytics and StatCounter for site usage analytics. Your IP address is saved on our web server, but it’s not associated with any personally identifiable information. We don’t use cookies and don’t store session information in cookies. We use your browser’s local storage to save tools’ input. It stays on your computer.
By using Online Utf8 Tools you agree to our Terms of Service. TLDR: You don’t need an account to use our tools. All tools are free of charge and you can use them as much as you want. You can’t do illegal or shady things with our tools. We may block your access to tools, if we find out you’re doing something bad. We’re not liable for your actions and we offer no warranty. We may revise our terms at any time.