Even though utf8_decode is a useful solution, I prefer to correct the encoding errors on the table itself. In my opinion it is better to correct the bad characters themselves than making "hacks" in the code. Simply do a replace on the field on the table. To correct the bad encoded characters from OP :
Harassment is any behavior intended to disturb or upset a person or group of people. Threats include any threat of violence, or harm to another.
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn;
ASCII Control Characters (0-31 and 127) These characters are part of ASCII, Windows-1252 and ISO-8859-1. The characters with the ASCII codes 0 to 31 and 127 are control characters which are not intended for display.
2. "ã and a" are the same and are practically the same as "un" in "under". When used as a letter, "a" has the same pronunciation as "à". Again, just "ã" does not exist. 3. "â" is the same as "ã". Again, just â" does not exist. This is the general pronunciation. It all depends on the word in question. Especially the character "a".
Similarly, the right single quotation mark ('), when encoded in UTF-8 and decoded using Windows-1252, becomes ’, ’, ’, and so on. In older eras, some computers had vendor-specific encodings which caused mismatch also for English text.
Â: Latin capital letter A with circumflex: 194: C2 Â Â ┬ Box drawings light down and horizontal: Ã: Latin capital letter A with tilde: 195: C3 Ã Ã ├ Box drawings light vertical and right: Ä: Latin capital letter A with diaeresis: 196: C4 Ä Ä ─ Box drawings light horizontal: Å: Latin capital letter A ...
Instead of an expected character, a sequence of Latin characters is shown, typically starting with à or Â. For example, instead of "è" these characters occur: "è". Explanation. A common problem is for characters encoded as UTF-8 to have their individual bytes interpreted as ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252. For example:
Â: Capital A with circumflex: Alt 0194 Â â: Lowercase a with circumflex: Alt 0226 â Ã: Capital A with tilde: Alt 0195 Ã
Typing Common Diacritics This page provides information on adding diacritics and producing non-standard characters using the modern Latin alphabet in MacOS and Windows. MacOS On a MacOS computer, you can use the key combinations listed below to type accented characters and other symbols. This input method works at the system level, and thus in all applications that...