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Asked: 2026-05-31T05:11:57+00:00

I’m trying to read an XML document which contains ™ (™), but for some

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I’m trying to read an XML document which contains ™ (™), but for some reason, no matter what I try, it always displays as â„¢.

For example:

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<item><title>test</title></item><item><title>&#x2122;</title></item>');
foreach ($xml->item AS $item)
{
    echo $item->title . "<br />";
}

Results in:
test
â„¢

Just to be clear, I don’t want it to just show appropriately, I need to insert it to a DB.

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The code in your original post works fine for me, at least if I add <xml> tags. Make sure the content encoding of your HTML page is set correctly, i.e. send the HTTP header Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8 or set this in your <head>. When inserting the string containing this symbol into the database, first set the character set to UTF-8 using SET NAMES UTF8. Of course, the database/table/field into which you are inserting should be set to UTF8 too.

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