Question

I’m using a proxy to get google results. Which I then show as plain html. The problem is that I get a strange symbol every now and than that looks like this �

I know it might have something to do with my proxy.php and language/character settings. But since I don’t know PHP I was wondering wether I could remove this symbol using jquery/javascript. I tried display:none and &('�').remove(); with no luck.

ps I dont know if you see the same symbol as I am seeing in my browser, but in case you dont: its a ‘?’ inside a little black square.

Answer 1

You should force the charset header of your response to be UTF-8 (or other suitable charset for your needs), or you could previously convert all your unicode characters on server side with mb_convert_encoding

example (taken from manual page)

<?php
$text = "A strange string to pass, maybe with some ø, æ, å characters.";

foreach(mb_list_encodings() as $chr){
    echo mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', $chr)." : ".$chr."<br>";   
}
?>