I’m getting � this character in my facebook app instead of “£”- I checked the mysql db and the character is being stored as £. How do i fix this? This has never happened to me before – I’m using PHP as well.
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I’m getting � this character in my facebook app instead of “£”- I checked the mysql db and the character is being stored as £. How do i fix this? This has never happened to me before – I’m using PHP as well.
Try using
mb_convert_encoding()to convert the character from whatever character set it’s being stored in, to the character set Facebook is being displayed in.eg:
See: http://php.net/mb_convert_encoding for more information.