Getting â€™ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP

Asked 2010-02-18T20:33:56.430

I've tried converting the text to or from utf8, which didn't seem to help.

I'm getting:

"Itâ€™s Getting the Best of Me"

It should be:

"It’s Getting the Best of Me"

I'm getting this data from this url.

php utf-8 character-encoding mojibake

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1 Answer

Make sure your html header specifies utf8

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

That usually does the trick for me (obviously if the content IS utf8).

You don't need to convert to html entities if you set the content-type.

answered 2010-03-24T06:21:34.363