Getting â€™ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP

This can occur if your PHP code is using the ISO-8859-1 character set instead of UTF-8. To fix this issue, you can change the character set to UTF-8 in your PHP script by including the following line at the top of your script:

console

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

You can also change the character set in your HTML by including the following line within the <head> section of your HTML document:

<meta charset="UTF-8">

Additionally, ensure your database connection uses UTF-8 (e.g., mysqli_set_charset($conn, 'utf8mb4'); or setting the charset in your PDO DSN).

Here's a full example of how to handle the issue of getting ’ instead of an apostrophe (') in PHP:

Example of how to handle the issue of getting ’ instead of an apostrophe in PHP

php

<‌?php
// Set default charset to UTF-8
ini_set('default_charset', 'UTF-8');

// Simulate a string that was incorrectly decoded as ISO-8859-1
$text = "Hereâ€™s an example of using an apostrophe in PHP";

// Convert the string from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 encoding
$text = mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1');

echo $text;
?>

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The mb_convert_encoding() function converts the string to UTF-8, ensuring apostrophes and other special characters display correctly.

Getting â€™ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP ​

Getting â€™ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP