PHP: Problems converting “’” character from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

Question

I\'m having some issues with using PHP to convert ISO-8859-1 database content to UTF-8. I am running the following code to test:

// Connect to a latin1 charset d         


        

Answer 1

this will solve your problem, supposing that your page header charset is utf-8:

// Opens a connection to a MySQL server
$connection = mysql_connect ($server, $username, $password);
$charset = mysql_client_encoding($connection);
$flagChange = mysql_set_charset('utf8', $connection);
echo "The character set is: $charset</br>mysql_set_charset result:$flagChange</br>";

Answer 2

U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK is not a character in ISO-8859-1. It is a character in windows-1252, as 0x92. The actual ISO-8859-1 character 0x92 is a rarely-used C1 control character called "Private Use 2".

It is very common to mislabel Windows-1252 text data with the charset label ISO-8859-1. Many web browsers and e-mail clients treat the MIME charset ISO-8859-1 as Windows-1252 characters in order to accommodate such mislabeling but it is not standard behaviour and care should be taken to avoid generating these characters in ISO-8859-1 labeled content.

It appears that this is what's happening here. Change "ISO-8859-1" to "windows-1252".