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Thanks for reply, Yes they are tamil characters, The characters are encoded and the value is posted. The DB was not constructed earlier to accept it as itself of the characters. The browser itself decodes the value. html_entity_decode(); dosent work. Any other workaround to achieve this with generally available functions.

Hello, I want to write some unicode "இயற்கை" values into a file in its real format like "இயற" Actually the browser prints the charactes in correct format, but I want it to be same in view source or browser source(இயற) but now the he browser displays it as (இயற்கை) $text = "இயற்கை"; $rest = utf8_decode($text); echo "$rest"; How to achieve this? Decode