Convert html entities into charactes problem

Question

Hello

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Im having trouble converting the html entites into html characters, (&# 8217;) i have tried using al the different php functions (html_entity_decode, htmlspecial characters etc...) None seem to be working, any ideas what function i need to use?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Your problem isn't that the characters are not decoded correctly, but that the browser is misinterpreting the decoded characters.

As the page is encoded using UTF-8, you need to specify that in the header:

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