(PHP ActiveX) Decode utf-8 Hex to a String

Converts a hex-encoded utf-8 bytes to a string.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php



// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.StringBuilder')
$sb = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");

// Append the hex.  The hex can be uppercase hex or lowercase hex, it doesn't matter.
$success = $sb->Append('D79ED795D7A6D7A8');

// Notice the above string contains Hebrew chars using the utf-8 byte representation.
// See https://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/codetables/BasicHebrew.html
// For example:  D79E is the HEBREW LETTER MEM

// Therefore, when we decode to binary bytes, we must interpret the bytes as utf-8
// to get characters.

// Tell Chilkat to URL decode like this:
$success = $sb->Decode('hex','utf-8');

// sb now contains the decoded string.
print $sb->getAsString() . "\n";

?>