PHP Display Special Characters

Question

When i output the text £3.99 per M² from an xml file,browser displays it as £3.99 per M².XML file is in UTF-8 format.I wonder how to fix

Answer 1

You should encode html entities:

you could try

htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");

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If you still have problems sometimes you also have to decode the string with utf8_decode() so you can try:

$str = utf8_decode($str);
$str = htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);