Question

There are the problems of data in mysql.

Some data store with the string like (1):"hello & hello ' hello è ...". And some data store with the string like (2):"hello à hello é hello ê ...".

I can solve the string (1) to the normal string, but I don’t know how to convert the string (2) to the normal string?

Note : We can not change the data in the existing database :/
Also the both sample is store in the same table and the charset of the table is latin1!

Answer 1

hello à hello é hello ê probably is UTF-8 interpreted as ISO-8859-1.

You can either change the interpretation, e.g. in a browser set a charset, or convert it to ISO-8859-1 using utf8_decode().