removing strange characters from php string

Question

this is what i have right now

Drawing an RSS feed into the php, the raw xml from the rss feed reads:

Paul’s Confidence

The ph

Answer 1

Many Strange Character be removed by applying mysqli_set_charset($con,"utf8"); below the mysql connection code.

but in some circumstances of removing this type strange character like â€

we need to use: $title = ' Stefen Suraj'; $newtitle = preg_replace('/[^(\x20-\x7F)]*/','', $title); echo $newtitle;

Output will be: Stefen Suraj