Simple PHP command to convert special characters?

[mjurmann]

Hello, I have a string that contains the ™ symbol. When the string is echoed, instead of the ™ symbol appearing, I see a "?" (question mark). I'm working on a project for someone and I don't want to have to enter in the special codes for these special characters, so is there any way to decode that ™ symbol within the string and then have it echo out the ™ rather than echoing out a "?" ?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Demonic]

Look up

 

"htmlspecialchars()" ?

 

[soycharliente]

Maybe htmlspecialchars()

[mjurmann]

Look up

 

"htmlspecialchars()" ?

 

 

No luck, that didn't work. I'm still getting the "?" (question mark) instead of the actual ™ symbol.

[effigy]

Perhaps it is stored in UTF-8 and your META needs to conform?

[mjurmann]

Perhaps it is stored in UTF-8 and your META needs to conform?

 

Here is my META information for that document:

 

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

[Demonic]

Humm...try

 

htmlentities(..,ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

[mjurmann]

Humm...try

 

htmlentities(..,ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

 

I tried this and nothing echos from the string. It comes up with an empty echo.

 

The code I used:

 

$rowExcerptPR = htmlentities($rowExcerptPR,ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

[effigy]

Is this string actually in your code, or being pulled from somewhere else?

[mjurmann]

Is this string actually in your code, or being pulled from somewhere else?

 

Its being pulled from a WordPress database using a mySQL query.

[haku]

What is the encoding in your database? Your meta tag has to have the same charset. Also, you will have to ensure that the default_charset in your php.ini is set to that same charset.

[mjurmann]

This doesn't seem to be working. Fortunately, I only believe that they will be using the ™ symbol and therefore I'd like to do a simple find and replace within the string (find ™, replace with ™).

 

Can someone please point me to the correct function to do this?

 

Thanks in advance.

[mjurmann]

I asked the last question too quickly. I found the answer (str_replace).

 

Thanks anyways to everyone.

[soycharliente]

You're only doing that in one specific instance correct? If you applied that function to entire post or all the text on the page, you could possibly screw up words like leftmost, hitman, batman, litmus, nutmeg, oatmeal, etc. I could go on