UTF-8 safe equivalent of javascript's charCodeAt() in PHP
character-encoding, multibyte, ord, php, utf-8
Solution
`ord()` works byte per byte (as most of PHPs standard string functions - if not all). You would need to convert it your own, for example with the help of the multibyte string extension:
$utf8Character = 'Ą';
list(, $ord) = unpack('N', mb_convert_encoding($utf8Character, 'UCS-4BE', 'UTF-8'));
echo $ord; # 260
Problem
I need to be able to use `ord()` to get the same value as javascript's `charCodeAt()` function. The problem is that `ord()` doesn't support UTF8. How can I get `Ą` to translate to `260` in PHP? I've tried some uniord functions out there, but they all report 256 instead of 260.