I need to be able to use ord() to get the same value as javascript’s charCodeAt() function. The problem is that ord() doesn’t support UTF8.
How can I get Ą to translate to 260 in PHP? I’ve tried some uniord functions out there, but they all report 256 instead of 260.
Thanks a lot for any help!
Regards
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Answer
ord()
works byte per byte (as most of PHPs standard string functions – if not all). You would need to convert it your own, for example with the help of the multibyte string extension:
$utf8Character = 'Ą'; list(, $ord) = unpack('N', mb_convert_encoding($utf8Character, 'UCS-4BE', 'UTF-8')); echo $ord; # 260