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I do not understand what this weird symbol represents Orits� Williams. It was inserted in to the database by a member of our office, using a CMS, and when printed to the screen it comes out like the above example.
Can anybody tell me what it is and how I could replace or escape it? I’m thinking it has something to with the letter “e”, to make “Ortise”.
It is possible that your database is set to ASCII but your web application to UTF-8 (or vice versa)
Thus either the database has malformed data which the web app cannot display or the web app is trying to display a UTF-8 character as ASCII
What is the type of the field in the database?
If it is VARCHAR then your database is ASCII whereas if it is NVARCHAR then it is likely UTF-8. Even if your field is NVARCHAR a poorly written web app may have inserted the data improperly resulting in malformed data in the field.