’ is being displayed instead of -

Question

’ is being displayed instead of - in php page

I tried using different encoding types like:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/>

and

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

but result is the same. What could be the problem?

Input

<strong style="color:#A8A8A8;">1</strong> – Lorem Ipsum.

Result

1 – Lorem Ipsum.

Answer 1

Make sure your html header specifies utf8

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

That usually does the trick for me (obviously if the content IS utf8).

You don't need to convert to html entities if you set the content-type.

---

check http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php

<?php
     header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
     mb_internal_encoding('utf-8');
?>

may be this will help you.