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mb_chr

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(PHP 7 >= 7.2.0, PHP 8)

Return character by Unicode code point value

Description

mb_chr(int $codepoint, string|null $encoding = null): string|false

Returns a string containing the character specified by the Unicode code point value, encoded in the specified encoding.

This function complements mb_ord().

Parameters

codepoint: A Unicode codepoint value, e.g. 128024 for U+1F418 ELEPHANT
encoding: Parameter

Return Values

A string containing the requested character, if it can be represented in the specified encoding Falseforfailure.

Changelog

Version	Description

Examples

Example

php

<?php
$values = [65, 63, 0x20AC, 128024];
foreach ($values as $value) {
    var_dump(mb_chr($value, 'UTF-8'));
    var_dump(mb_chr($value, 'ISO-8859-1'));
}
?>

The above example will output:

output

string(1) "A"
string(1) "A"
string(1) "?"
string(1) "?"
string(3) "€"
bool(false)
string(4) "🐘"
bool(false)