Problem with Unrecognised characters displaying

[djrichwz]

I am getting a text result from the mysql database which has both "-" and single quote marks used. How do I remove the unrecognised characters show below:

 

I have tried htmlentities which does remove the "-" but does not remove the single quotes.

 

How can I remove these in the output also How can I add a space inbetween text result from a database ie (output) Change to (out put).

 

Here is what is displayed on screen:

�double�

 

 

here is the code I am currently using to display this result:

$quote = nl2br(htmlentities($history));

 

thanks in advance for your advice.

[discomatt]

You probably have varying character encoding from your database to your HTML page.

[djrichwz]

How do I change the encoding so it does not display these unrecognised characters.

 

thanks in advance