I am using an api that returns string that include encodings like this:
"It's a bit of a slow week"
I want this to be decoded into a human readable format using php.
I've tried html_entity_decode, rawurldecode, and quoted_printable_decode. I've even checked stackoverflow questions and tried more involved strategies including this one to no avail (it uses deprecated syntax anyway, and I wouldn't have liked keeping it in my application).
So does anyone know what type of encoding this is, and how to decode it in php?
html_entity_decode() ignores quotes by default, but will do what you want if you add the ENT_QUOTES flag:
<?php
$a = "It's working fine.";
$b = html_entity_decode($a, ENT_QUOTES);
var_dump($b); // string(18) "It's working fine."
?>