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Asked: 2026-05-11T15:42:26+00:00

I’ve asked this question before, here , however that solution didn’t fix it when

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I’ve asked this question before, here, however that solution didn’t fix it when I looked closely. This is the problem.

For some reason, my mysql table is converting single and double quotes into strange characters. E.g

'aha'

is changed into:

“ahaâ€

How can I fix this, or detect this in PHP and decode everything??

Previously i tried doing this query right after connecting to MySQL:

$sql='SET NAMES 'latin1''; mysql_query($sql);

But that no longer has any effect. I’m seeing strings such as:

 “aha†(for 'aha') It’s (for 'its')

etc.

Any ideas?

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  1. As per the answer to your original question, your input is actually in UTF-8, but the output you’re seeing looks wrong because your output terminal and/or browser is set to the (single byte) character encoding ‘Windows 1252’.

    If you just make sure that your output is also set to UTF-8 then everything should be fine.

    See Quotation marks turn to question marks

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