HTML encoding issues - “” character showing up instead of “ ”

Question

I\'ve got a legacy app just starting to misbehave, for whatever reason I\'m not sure. It generates a bunch of HTML that gets turned into PDF reports by ActivePDF.

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Answer 1

I was having the same sort of problem. Apparently it's simply because PHP doesn't recognise utf-8.

I was tearing my hair out at first when a '£' sign kept showing up as '£', despite it appearing ok in DreamWeaver. Eventually I remembered I had been having problems with links relative to the index file, when the pages, if viewed directly would work with slideshows, but not when used with an include (but that's beside the point. Anyway I wondered if this might be a similar problem, so instead of putting into the page that I was having problems with, I simply put it into the index.php file - problem fixed throughout.