While you receive html content through the function "preg_match_all", the special char is not displayed correctly, how to resolve this?

Question

I am extracting the html content using the code below,

preg_match_all('/<div class="content">(.*?)<\/div>/s', $str, $matches);
echo $matches[1][0];

The content is selected correctly, but some special char whit text does not display correctly, as

"response to what?" show as "the answer to what?"

but it doesn’tdisplayed, but it does not matter. and some blanck space mapping as Â

How to solve this problem..?

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Wiram rathod Mar 28 '13 at 10:19

2 answers

first add this line to your code ... (top)

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

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thumber nirmal Mar 28 '13 at 10:29

Ussama · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-28T10:24:34+0000

You have problems with unicode, try adding this as the first line in the script:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');