How to convert UTF-8 Hex into regular String in PHP?

Question

I have some scraped data in some pretty weird shape. It looks like this:

%C3%96lkis

When converted, it should look like this:

Ölkis

I googled some, and found that %C3%96 is presumably UTF-8 Hex for the character Ö.

There's lots of special characters in my data escaped/converted like this into different UTF-8 Hex codes.

So how do I convert it back to a normal string?

SobiborTreblinka · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-15 07:01:46Z

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It looks like your data is url encoded, you want to use PHP's urldecode function

urldecode("%C3%96lkis") = 'Ölkis'

answered May 15, 2014 at 6:55

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