string_utf8_decode [function]

string_utf8_decode( string ustr )

returns an array of Unicode code points, decoded from the UTF-8 string ustr

string_utf8_decode( "pie" ); // [112,105,101]
string_utf8_decode( "код" ); // [1082,1086,1076]
string_utf8_decode( "標準" ); // [27161,28310]