phputf-8character-encodingmojibake

Getting ’ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP

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

I'm getting:

"It’s Getting the Best of Me"

It should be:

"It’s Getting the Best of Me"

I'm getting this data from this url.

Solution

  • To convert to HTML entities:

    <?php
  echo mb_convert_encoding(
    file_get_contents('http://www.tvrage.com/quickinfo.php?show=Surviver&ep=20x02&exact=0'),
    "HTML-ENTITIES",
    "UTF-8"
  );
?>

    See docs for mb_convert_encoding for more encoding options.