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Asked: 2026-05-15T00:07:03+00:00

I am using the Amazon and eBay API via PHP5 and Curl to get

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I am using the Amazon and eBay API via PHP5 and Curl to get product listings for a client. When I ask the API to give me a description or a category for a product, I’m sometimes getting something that looks like this:

Estée Lauder

When I go look at the XML download from the API, it shows this entry inside:

<categoryName>Estée Lauder</categoryName>

The product in particular was this one…. So as not to give away the affiliate ID, just do this — query http://ebay.com/ on “ESTEE LAUDER HIGH GLOSS ULTRA BRILLIANCE GLOSS-‘Berry'”. Then click the link that is named this.

How can I trap for this and properly display this? I am using PHP5.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use the mb_content_encoding function and convert the string utf-8.
    You can read more from this http://hu.php.net/manual/en/book.mbstring.php

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