IntlChar::chr

(PHP 7)

Return Unicode character by code point value

public static string IntlChar::chr ( mixed $codepoint )

Returns a string containing the character specified by the Unicode code point value.

This function compliments IntlChar::ord().

Parameters:

codepoint

The integer codepoint value (e.g. 0x2603 for U+2603 SNOWMAN), or the character encoded as a UTF-8 string (e.g. "\u{2603}")

Returns:

A string containing the single character specified by the Unicode code point value.

Examples:

Testing different code points

<?php
$values = ["A", 63, 123, 9731];
foreach ($values as $value) {
    var_dump(IntlChar::chr($value));
}
?>

The above example will output:

string(1) "A"
string(1) "A"
string(1) "{"
string(3) "☃"