It looks like your data is url encoded, you want to use PHP's urldecode function
urldecode("%C3%96lkis") = 'Ölkis'
Domanda
I have some scraped data in some pretty weird shape. It looks like this:
%C3%96lkis
When converted, it should look like this:
Ölkis
I googled some, and found that %C3%96 is presumably UTF-8 Hex
for the character Ö.
There's lots of special characters in my data escaped/converted like this into different UTF-8 Hex codes.
So how do I convert it back to a normal string?
Soluzione
It looks like your data is url encoded, you want to use PHP's urldecode function
urldecode("%C3%96lkis") = 'Ölkis'