wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-decoder.php:426Encode a code point number into the UTF-8 encoding.
$code_pointintstring public static function code_point_to_utf8_bytes( $code_point ): string { // Pre-check to ensure a valid code point. if ( $code_point <= 0 || ( $code_point >= 0xD800 && $code_point <= 0xDFFF ) || $code_point > 0x10FFFF ) { return '�'; } if ( $code_point <= 0x7F ) { return chr( $code_point ); } if ( $code_point <= 0x7FF ) { $byte1 = chr( ( $code_point >> 6 ) | 0xC0 ); $byte2 = chr( $code_point & 0x3F | 0x80 ); return "{$byte1}{$byte2}"; } if ( $code_point <= 0xFFFF ) { $byte1 = chr( ( $code_point >> 12 ) | 0xE0 ); $byte2 = chr( ( $code_point >> 6 ) & 0x3F | 0x80 ); $byte3 = chr( $code_point & 0x3F | 0x80 ); return "{$byte1}{$byte2}{$byte3}"; } // Any values above U+10FFFF are eliminated above in the pre-check. $byte1 = chr( ( $code_point >> 18 ) | 0xF0 ); $byte2 = chr( ( $code_point >> 12 ) & 0x3F | 0x80 ); $byte3 = chr( ( $code_point >> 6 ) & 0x3F | 0x80 ); $byte4 = chr( $code_point & 0x3F | 0x80 ); return "{$byte1}{$byte2}{$byte3}{$byte4}"; }Introduced in 6.6.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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