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  1. <?php
  2.  
  3. function entities_to_unicode($str) {
  4.     $str = html_entity_decode($str, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
  5.     $str = preg_replace_callback("/(&#[0-9]+;)/", function($m) { return mb_convert_encoding($m[1], "UTF-8", "HTML-ENTITIES"); }, $str);
  6.     return $str;
  7. }
  8.  
  9. $str = 'Oggi &egrave; un bel&nbsp;giorno';
  10. echo entities_to_unicode($str);
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Oggi è un bel giorno
https://ideone.com/ie0p63
language:
PHP (php 7.3.5)
created:
3 years ago
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