title: Unicode to Character Converter In PHP
body: <p>I need to convert unicode to character in PHP. I am using MySQL database to store text The text is in unicode format with collation utf8-general-ci. When I retrive those data and display, some special characters are displayed:: like "à¤®à¤¿à¤¨à¤¿à¤¸à¥à¤•à¤°à¥à¤Ÿà¤®à¤¾ à¤•à¤°à¥à¤•à¥‡ à¤¨à¤œà¤°" for the text "मिनिस्कर्टमा कर्के नजर". This is Nepali font in unicode format. I need it in character or ascii format in PHP. I have tried utf8 encode and decode but none of them worked(displays question marks ???? in decoding and "Ã Â¤Â®Ã Â¤Â¿Ã Â¤Â¨Ã Â¤Â¿Ã Â¤Â¸Ã Â¥ÂÃ Â¤Â•Ã Â¤Â°Ã Â¥ÂÃ Â¤ÂŸÃ Â¤Â®Ã Â¤Â¾ Ã Â¤Â•Ã Â¤Â°Ã Â¥ÂÃ Â¤Â•Ã Â¥Â‡ Ã Â¤Â¨Ã Â¤ÂœÃ Â¤Â°" on encoding). So, how can I get ascii value or character or unicode value of each unicode characters from mysql database in PHP??? </p>