How to remove unnecessary characters from string?

Question

There is a problem in character when I fetch data from database.

doesn�t

It�s

I have tried to remove it using str_replace function but it's not working.

str_replace('�','',$str);

The encoding is

<meta charset="UTF-8" /> 

How can i solve these problem?

Answer 1

Try utf8_encode() function.

It will remove that characters

utf8_decode('doesn�t');  // doesnt

this is not good because it removes ' from doesn't

OR

Just update your Meta tag

<meta charset="UTF-8" />

to

<meta charset="ISO-8859-1" />

Output

doesn't

It's