While fetch html content through "preg_match_all" function special char not display proper, how to resolve this?

Question

I'm fetch the html content using below code,

preg_match_all('/<div class="content">(.*?)<\/div>/s', $str, $matches);
echo $matches[1][0];

Content fetched correctly but some special char whit text not display properly like

“response to what?” display as “response to what?â€

but it doesn’t display as but it doesn’t matter. and some blanck space display as Â

how to resolve this issue..?

Answer 1

You have unicode issues, try adding this as the first line in your script :

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');