PHPAPI char *xml_utf8_decode(const XML_Char *s, int len, int *newlen, const XML_Char *encoding)
{
int pos = len;
char *newbuf = emalloc(len + 1);
unsigned short c;
char (*decoder)(unsigned short) = NULL;
xml_encoding *enc = xml_get_encoding(encoding);
*newlen = 0;
if (enc) {
decoder = enc->decoding_function;
}
if (decoder == NULL) {
/* If the target encoding was unknown, or no decoder function
* was specified, return the UTF-8-encoded data as-is.
*/
memcpy(newbuf, s, len);
*newlen = len;
newbuf[*newlen] = ‘\0′;
return newbuf;
}
while (pos > 0) {
c = (unsigned char)(*s);
if (c >= 0xf0) { /* four bytes encoded, 21 bits */
c = ((s[0]&7)<<18) | ((s[1]&63)<<12) | ((s[2]&63)<<6) | (s[3]&63);
s += 4;
pos -= 4;
} else if (c >= 0xe0) { /* three bytes encoded, 16 bits */
c = ((s[0]&63)<<12) | ((s[1]&63)<<6) | (s[2]&63);
s += 3;
pos -= 3;
} else if (c >= 0xc0) { /* two bytes encoded, 11 bits */
c = ((s[0]&63)<<6) | (s[1]&63);
s += 2;
pos -= 2;
} else {
s++;
pos–;
}
newbuf[*newlen] = decoder ? decoder(c) : c;
++*newlen;
}
if (*newlen < len) {
newbuf = erealloc(newbuf, *newlen + 1);
}
newbuf[*newlen] = ‘\0′;
return newbuf;
}

<?php
$ill=chr(0xf0).chr(0xc0).chr(0xc0).chr(0xa7);
$ill=addslashes($ill);
echo utf8_decode("$ill");
echo htmlspecialchars ($ill,ENT_QUOTES,"utf-8" );
?>