PHP character decoding

Question

I have an array of strings coming back from a web service that are encoded like this:

"Women\x27s Health"

I have not been able to convert "\x27" to an apostrophe in PHP. I've tried

html_entity_decode('Women\x27s Health", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')

and a few other solutions outside of a find an replace is there a way to do this?

Whoever is providing this data is not doing it correctly. Apostrophes don't need to be escaped. If they did, they should be done like \u0027, which would then get handled by json_decode() automatically. — miken32
– miken32, Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 19:28
It's our google search appliance. It probably has a setting somewhere to change how it's returning the data. I'll take a look. Thanks for your input. — user2832792
– user2832792, Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 23:40

Narf · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-22 19:21:22Z

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It's not really "encoded" ... Just apply stripcslashes().

answered Feb 22, 2017 at 19:21

Narf

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