PHP and character encoding problem with  character
问题 I'm having a problem where PHP (5.2) cannot find the character 'Â' in a string, though it is clearly there. I realize the underlying problem has to do with character encoding, but unfortunately I have no control over the source content. I receive it as UTF-8, with those characters already in the string. I would simply like to remove it from the string. strpos(), str_replace(), preg_replace(), trim(), etc. Cannot correctly identify it. My string is this: "Â Â Â A lot of couples throughout the