mb_decode_numericentity Decode HTML numeric string reference to character &reftitle.description; stringmb_decode_numericentity stringstr arrayconvmap stringencoding Convert numeric string reference of string str in specified block to character. It returns converted string. convmap is array to specifies code area to convert. encoding is character encoding. If it is omitted, internal character encoding is used. See also mb_encode_numericentity.