How to Make an Actual UTF-8 Character in PHP
The PHP programming language supports a character encoding scheme known as Unicode. Unicode encodes every single character from all known alphabets, including those in modern texts and ancient. This makes it very useful for creating international websites. The Unicode standard that PHP supports is UTF-8. You can convert any character into UTF-8 using the function utf8_encode. This function creates a string of characters encoded using UTF-8. You can also encode a single character using this function.
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Decide how you will run your PHP code. If you have a PHP server, you can execute code using PHP files. If you do not have access to a PHP server, you can use an online PHP interpreter. Enter the code in this tutorial into either a PHP file or the online PHP interpreter.
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Begin your PHP program with the following statement:
<?php
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Declare a variable that holds one character, like this:
$character = 'a';
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Encode the character to UTF-8 using the utf8_encode function. This function returns a new character, so you will need to save it to a new variable. To declare a new variable and convert the variable $character to UTF-8, you can write the following code:
$newCharacter = utf8_encode($character);
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Conclude your PHP program with the statement below. Your program is now ready to be tested on your PHP server or online PHP interpreter.
?>
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