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Asked: 2026-05-23T08:36:23+00:00

Can somebody please explain me why I need to html_entity_decode the $reversecaption two times

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Can somebody please explain me why I need to html_entity_decode the $reversecaption two times to get the decoded characters?

Edit: $finalArray[‘Caption’] is pure text that comes from a XML file.

$reversecaption = html_entity_decode($finalArray['Caption'],ENT_QUOTES, "ISO8859-1");
$reversecaption = html_entity_decode($reversecaption,ENT_QUOTES, "ISO8859-1");

If I run it just once the characters stay encoded.

$reversecaption = html_entity_decode($finalArray['Caption'],ENT_QUOTES, "ISO8859-1");

I’m new to PHP so I’ld like to get that logic.

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  1. Editorial Team

    We have no idea where your original data is coming from, but it was obviously double-encoded!

    Double-encoded data looks like &, ", …

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