Decode symbols in string

Question

echo $name gives me Mount Kimbie — Carbonated.

How do I get Mount Kimbie — Carbonated?

&mdash, quotes and other stuff should be decoded into regular symbols.

I've tried both htmlspecialchars_decode($name) and html_entity_decode($name), they don't work.

Answer 1

You probably lack the charset parameter:

html_entity_decode($name, 0, "UTF-8");

Depending on PHP version, Latin-1 was assumed, which does not harbor mdash.