decoding &#8216; and &#8217; (HTML codes) problem

marky2coats · Oct 21, 2004

Hi ppl,

Trying to decode ’ and ‘ (HTML codes) in a string back to normal ascii. Thought html_entity_decode() would decode these but it seems not.

Anybody know of anther function that will decode?

Cheers,

Mark.

devinemke · Oct 21, 2004

$string = '&#8216; and &#8217;';
$string = str_replace('&#8216;', '‘', $string);
$string = str_replace('&#8217;', '’', $string);
echo $string;

sidney · Oct 21, 2004

its the char set

$html='decoding &#8216; and &#8217; (HTML codes) problem ';

echo html_entity_decode ( $html, ENT_QUOTES, 'cp1251');

marky2coats · Oct 22, 2004

Thanks ppl.

marky2coats · Oct 22, 2004

Can I just ask why it needs to decode using a Russian char set ?

Mark

sidney · Oct 22, 2004

you probably dont but that was the first i tried that worked

try cp1252 and some others in previous link