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An apostrophe is rendering as â€tm. What PHP function will display it as ' ? something_Decode?

Asked 2011-01-03T09:30:49.287
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I'm grabbing some tweets and printing them out on my site and curly apostrophes are being rendered as "â€tm". This is not good. What php function should I run the string through to get these weird characters to display as something closer to '?

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I battled with this for almost a day and then found that this function will work 100% of the time. It works with utf-8 and unicode and converts characters that are beyond the base ascii set into their html entities. It's good for cleaning up MS Word rubbish. 

function filterText($text) 
{ 

    //UTF-8 filter
    $conv = array(
          "\xC2\xA0" => ' ',
          "\xC2\xA1" => '¡',
          "\xC2\xA2" => '¢',
          "\xC2\xA3" => '£',
          "\xC2\xA4" => '¤',
          "\xC2\xA5" => '¥',
          "\xC2\xA6" => '¦',
          "\xC2\xA7" => '§',
          "\xC2\xA8" => '¨',
          "\xC2\xA9" => '©',
          "\xC2\xAA" => 'ª',
          "\xC2\xAB" => '«',
          "\xC2\xAC" => '¬',
          "\xC2\xAD" => '­',
          "\xC2\xAE" => '®',
          "\xC2\xAF" => '¯',
          "\xC2\xB0" => '°',
          "\xC2\xB1" => '±',
          "\xC2\xB2" => '²',
          "\xC2\xB3" => '³',
          "\xC2\xB4" => '´',
          "\xC2\xB5" => 'µ',
          "\xC2\xB6" => '¶',
          "\xC2\xB7" => '·',
          "\xC2\xB8" => '¸',
          "\xC2\xB9" => '¹',
          "\xC2\xBA" => 'º',
          "\xC2\xBB" => '»',
          "\xC2\xBC" => '¼',
          "\xC2\xBD" => '½',
          "\xC2\xBE" => '¾',
          "\xC2\xBF" => '¿',
          "\xC3\x80" => 'À',
          "\xC3\x81" => 'Á',
          "\xC3\x82" => 'Â',
          "\xC3\x83" => 'Ã',
          "\xC3\x84" => 'Ä',
          "\xC3\x85" => 'Å',
          "\xC3\x86" => 'Æ',
          "\xC3\x87" =>
answered 2013-03-07T05:46:59.097

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