PHP unicode decode

Question

I have a PHP script that read string data from .xls file (via PHP Excel Reader). But some special characters it returns in unicode encoded format. For example, instead of "é" returns "\xe9".

Is there any way, in PHP 5.2, how decode string with "\x??" characters to clasic UTF-8?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Just use utf8_encode()

Here is an example: http://codepad.org/62STmyAl