removing strange characters from php string

Question

this is what i have right now

Drawing an RSS feed into the php, the raw xml from the rss feed reads:

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Answer 1

Yeah this is not working for me. What is the workaround for this? – vaichidrewar Mar 12 at 22:29

Add this to the HTML head (or modify if already there):

This will encode the funny chars like "“" into UTF-8 so that the str_replace() function will interpret them properly.

Or you can do this:

ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8');