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Asked: 2026-06-16T01:23:52+00:00

Possible Duplicate: How to fix double-encoded UTF8 characters (in an utf-8 table) I see

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How to fix double-encoded UTF8 characters (in an utf-8 table)

I see extra characters like â showing because of encoding issues as I found out here –
HTML encoding issues – "Â" character showing up instead of " "

I understand that if I set the browser meta encoding to UTF-8, these will not affect anything but I need to strip these extra characters from the database for other purposes.

For eg. :

Text: ↑ should be become Text: ↑

But if I run it through utf8_decode it gives me Text: �??

For every other occurrence of the â character, it converts properly to a blank space. Any help will be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have not shared much information in your question, but according to the sample you gave:

    ↑ (has been imported as) ↑

    This looks like you had already stored it as UTF-8 into the export file but while importing you told the file would be Windows-1252 encoded. It then was re-encoded a second time into UTF-8.

    ↑                                 UTF8: \xE2\x86\x91    UPWARDS ARROW (U+2191)

â  - Windows 1252     \xE2 226    UTF8: \xC3\xA2        LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX (U+00E2)
†  - Windows 1252     \x86 134    UTF8: \xE2\x80\xA0    DAGGER (U+2020)
‘  - Windows 1252     \x91 145    UTF8: \xE2\x80\x98    LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (U+2018)

    In MySQL the name of the Windows 1252 character set is latin1 (cp1252 West European, specific differences documented), for a full list please see Character Sets and Collations That MySQL Supports.

    That is why the solution in the related Q&A works.

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