MySQL or PHP is appending a  whenever the £ is used

Question

Answers provided have all been great, I mentioned in the comments of Alnitak\'s answer that I would need to go take a look at my CSV Generation script because for whatever r

Answer 1

In PHP, another small scale solution is to do a string conversion on the returned utf8 string:

print iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', "Mystring â"); //"Mystring "

Or in other platforms fire a system call to the inconv command (linux / osx)

http://php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php#83238