UTF-8 to Unicode Code Points

For a readable-form I would go with JSON. It's not required to escape non-ASCII characters in JSON, but PHP does:

echo json_encode("tchüß");

"tch\u00fc\u00df"

With PHP 7, there is a new IntlChar::ord() to find the Unicode Code Point from a given UTF-8 character:

var_dump(sprintf('U+%04X', IntlChar::ord('ß')));

# Outputs: string(6) "U+00DF"

For people looking to find the Unicode Code Point for any character this might be useful. You can then encode the string in whatever you want, replacing certain characters with escape codes, and leaving others in their binary form (eg. ascii printable characters), depending on the context in which you want to use it.

From: Mapping codepoints to Unicode encoding forms

The mapping for UTF-32 is, essentially, the identity mapping: the 32-bit code unit used to encode a codepoint has the same integer value as the codepoint itself.

/**
 * Convert a string into an array of decimal Unicode code points.
 *
 * @param $string   [string] The string to convert to codepoints
 * @param $encoding [string] The encoding of $string
 * 
 * @return [array] Array of decimal codepoints for every character of $string
 */
function toCodePoint( $string, $encoding )
{
    $utf32  = mb_convert_encoding( $string, 'UTF-32', $encoding );
    $length = mb_strlen( $utf32, 'UTF-32' );
    $result = [];


    for( $i = 0; $i < $length; ++$i )

        $result[] = hexdec( bin2hex( mb_substr( $utf32, $i, 1, 'UTF-32' ) ) );


    return $result;
}

Converting one character set to another can be done with iconv:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php

Note that UTF is already an Unicode encoding.

Another way is simply using htmlentities with the right character set:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

UTF-8 to Unicode Code Points

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