PHP Unicode codepoint to character

Question

I would like to convert Unicode codepoint to character. Here is what I have tried:

$point = dechex(127468);  // 1f1ec

echo "\u{1f1ec}";         // this works
echo "\u{$point}";        // this outputs '\u1f1ec'
echo "\u{{$point}}";      // Parse error: Invalid UTF-8 codepoint escape sequence
echo "\u\{{$point}\}";    // outputs \u\{1f1ec\}
echo "\u{". $point ."}";  // Parse error; same as above

Answer 1

You don't need to convert integer to hexadecimal string, instead use IntlChar::chr:

echo IntlChar::chr(127468);

Directly from docs of IntlChar::chr:

Return Unicode character by code point value