converting to unicode problem for SMS application

ajlow

I am developing a Chinese SMS application which is converting the Chinese characters into it's unicode version.

For the SMS application the unicode needs to be in the hex format, (e.g. "4E0A" which is the Chinese world for "above") however when I try to use mb_convert_encoding or utf8_encode I keep getting the html unicode (continuing with the above example, "上" -> "&# 19978 ;").

What commands or functions in PHP can I use to convert the Chinese character to just the hex (e.g. "above" in Chinese to "4E0A" instead of "&# 19978 ;").

Thanks for your help in advance!🙂

weekender

the character stored will be displayed in the browser based on the web pages header settings which specify which character encoding set to use

so i'm thinking that the page is displaying the wrong character because it is showing the wrong characterset - change the encoding to chinese (or whatever) and it should work.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html

if you get stuck, have a look at the source of some chinese web pages

ajlow

Thanks for the help. I changed the charset to "utf-8" of the page and the Chinese characters are now being displayed in my final result.

Is there a way to convert the actual Chinese character into it's hex value (i.e. "上" converted to "4E0A"). I could not find any functions or any other postings similar to what I would like to do...

weekender

so that when a user posts a message in chinese, it is stored as the hex?

i think it does this automatically, as the char encoding is set for the page