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

Just one simple solution.

if your string contains these type of strange chars suppose $text contains some of these then just do as shown bellow:

$mytext=mb_convert_encoding($text, "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8')

and it will work..