Convert UTF8 unicode string with latin special characters to numeric html representation

gistfile1.txt

function utf2html ($string)
{
    $f = 0xffff;
    $convmap = array(
    160,  255, 0, $f,
    402,  402, 0, $f,  913,  929, 0, $f,  931,  937, 0, $f,
    945,  969, 0, $f,  977,  978, 0, $f,  982,  982, 0, $f,
    8226, 8226, 0, $f, 8230, 8230, 0, $f, 8242, 8243, 0, $f,
    8254, 8254, 0, $f, 8260, 8260, 0, $f, 8465, 8465, 0, $f,
    8472, 8472, 0, $f, 8476, 8476, 0, $f, 8482, 8482, 0, $f,
    8501, 8501, 0, $f, 8592, 8596, 0, $f, 8629, 8629, 0, $f,
    8656, 8660, 0, $f, 8704, 8704, 0, $f, 8706, 8707, 0, $f,
    8709, 8709, 0, $f, 8711, 8713, 0, $f, 8715, 8715, 0, $f,
    8719, 8719, 0, $f, 8721, 8722, 0, $f, 8727, 8727, 0, $f,
    8730, 8730, 0, $f, 8733, 8734, 0, $f, 8736, 8736, 0, $f,
    8743, 8747, 0, $f, 8756, 8756, 0, $f, 8764, 8764, 0, $f,
    8773, 8773, 0, $f, 8776, 8776, 0, $f, 8800, 8801, 0, $f,
    8804, 8805, 0, $f, 8834, 8836, 0, $f, 8838, 8839, 0, $f,
    8853, 8853, 0, $f, 8855, 8855, 0, $f, 8869, 8869, 0, $f,
    8901, 8901, 0, $f, 8968, 8971, 0, $f, 9001, 9002, 0, $f,
    9674, 9674, 0, $f, 9824, 9824, 0, $f, 9827, 9827, 0, $f,
    9829, 9830, 0, $f,
    338,  339, 0, $f,  352,  353, 0, $f,  376,  376, 0, $f,
    710,  710, 0, $f,  732,  732, 0, $f, 8194, 8195, 0, $f,
    8201, 8201, 0, $f, 8204, 8207, 0, $f, 8211, 8212, 0, $f,
    8216, 8218, 0, $f, 8218, 8218, 0, $f, 8220, 8222, 0, $f,
    8224, 8225, 0, $f, 8240, 8240, 0, $f, 8249, 8250, 0, $f,
    8364, 8364, 0, $f);

    return mb_encode_numericentity($string, $convmap, "UTF-8");
}

//echo substr(substr(utf2html("ó"),2,strlen(utf2html("ó"))),0, -1);