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

1.The order of the strings in the $find array is significant. 2.This string "‘" should contain a tilde and look like three characters. If I save the .php file with my Genie editor it gits changed to just two characters "â€". 3.This is a useful reference https://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html

");
$find = array("‘", "’", "“", "â€");
$replace = array("‘", "’", "“", "”");
$text = str_replace($find, $replace, $text);
echo($text);
?>