Handling and Comparing Special Characters in PHP
When processing user input or data from external sources, special characters can cause unexpected mismatches. This article presents a practical approach to normalize and compare strings that contain such characters.
Converting Special Characters to Hexadecimal
The bin2hex() function can be used to inspect the raw bytes of a string:
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Posted on Tue, 19 May 2026 08:29:26 +0000 by marty_arl