Question

I use PHP Simple DOM to grab a URL. When I print the urls content to screen, I get:

you’ll

instead of:

you'll

If I run

$str = utf8_decode('you’ll');
echo $str;

I get:

you?ll

I’m obviously not understanding the fundamentals of encoding. Can you someone please tell me what I’m missing?

Answer 1

Try to set the encoding to UTF-8 before do anything.
Start your php file with this:

<?php
   header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
   mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
?>

and try to echo/print it without utf8_decode.

Note:
If you’re using mysql (postgesql), use this too:

<?php 
   mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET UTF8");
   mysql_query("SET NAMES UTF8");
?>

Edit: also, make sure you save your PHP file in UTF-8 (without BOM) format.