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Asked: 2026-06-10T08:25:41+00:00

I’m scraping rss feed data from rss xml. Some of the strings have quotes

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I’m scraping rss feed data from rss xml. Some of the strings have quotes in them. I’m running the strings through htmlentities() before i stick them in the database. Then when i try to display that same information in the browser, the quotes show up as “â??”. The character is stored as “& acirc; ??s”(no spaces) in the database

the header of my page

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">

I’m sure other entities are not displaying correctly. How should i go about correcting this?

An example feed with the quotes around “Agawi”:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch/gaming

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, because those are not regular quotes “ ”, more like Microsoft Word quotes.
    You should take feedburner‘s example and transform them into &ldquo; and &rdquo; manually.

    for example

    $feed = str_replace('“', '&ldquo;', $feed);
$feed = str_replace('”', '&rdquo;', $feed);
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