How to encode Smart Quotes?

[Anon]

Hi, I'm using PHP to hit a database and generate XML. The prob is when it encounters "smart quotes" -- the angled double quotes, and angled apostrophe -- it ends up printing out a square... which in turn gets translated into a "?" on the app that's using the XML.

Does anyone know how to encode these kinds of characters in php?

Thanks,
Zman

[mistcat]

why don't you try and figure out their ascii equivilent with the ord() function for those elements and do a find and replace on them?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ord.php