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Asked: 2026-05-31T06:49:44+00:00

I am using *file_get_contents* to get some remote text, and the text contains left/right

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I am using *file_get_contents* to get some remote text, and the text contains left/right double quoted text such as “Green Slime”.

*file_get_contents* returns this text as �Green Slime�.

Looking at the remote source, the “” characters are literal, not entity codes. There is no character set definition in the source.

Is there a context that I can add to *file_get_contents* to correct this? If not, how can I *str_replace* these characters?

EDIT: Obvious solutions like htmlentities() and str_replace() do not work. I also get the same characters returned when using cURL.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I used ord() to determine that these characters are chr(147) and chr(148), then used str_replace( Chr(147), "&#147", $str ).

    Not sure why both file_get_contents and curl return this content in a way that can’t be displayed in a browser.

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