Htmlentities Converts Trademark Into �

Possible Duplicate: PHP htmlentities() not working as expected I am using htmlentities to convert a trademark symbol into the htmlentity, but it is giving me â�&

Solution 1:

According to the manual, when not feeding this function with ISO-8859-1 strings, you need to provide a charset:

echo htmlentities($row['name'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

Update March 2015: Note that since this answer, the default character set this function uses has been changed for different versions:

• PHP < 5.4: ISO-8859-1
• PHP 5.4 & 5.5: UTF-8
• PHP >= 5.6: the default_charset setting (which is very welcome, and how it should have been in the first place).

Solution 2:

Try to explore the additional parameters of htmlentities() they may be helpful

http://bg2.php.net/htmlentities