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How to convert these strange characters? (ë, Ã, ì, ù, Ã)

My page often shows things like ë, Ã, ì, ù, à in place of normal characters. I use utf8 for header page and MySQL encode. …

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"’" showing on page instead of " ' "

’ is showing on my page instead of '. I have the Content-Type set to UTF-8 in both my <head&…

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How do I remove  from the beginning of a file?

I have a CSS file that looks fine when I open it using gedit, but when it's read by PHP (…

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How to replace � in a string

I have a string that contains a character � I haven't been able to replace it correctly. String.replace("�", ""); doesn't work, …

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Getting ’ instead of an apostrophe(') in PHP

I've tried converting the text to or from utf8, which didn't seem to help. I'm getting: "It’s Getting the …

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Converting special charactes such as ü and à back to their original, latin alphbet counterparts in C#

I have been given an export from a MySQL database that seems to have had it's encoding muddled somewhat over …

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Convert unicode with utf-8 string as content to str

I'm using pyquery to parse a page: dom = PyQuery('http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php', {'title': 'CSS', 'printable': 'yes', …

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$_POST will convert from utf-8 to ä ö ü etc

I am new here, so I apologize if I am doing anything wrong. I have a form which submits user …

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Python correct encoding of Website (Beautiful Soup)

I am trying to load a html-page and output the text, even though i am getting the webpage correctly, BeautifulSoup …

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PHP Ansi to UTF-8

I'm trying to create a script in PHP for converting some files to UTF-8. I have a file in Greek, …

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