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removing weird characters from php

I am trying to remove some special/weird characters from a PHP array.
The data comes in as a JSON with html like this:

<table class=\"MsoNormalTable\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"728\" style=\"width:545.75pt; margin-left:-1.7pt; border-collapse:collapse\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height:15.0pt\">\r\n<td width=\"303\" valign=\"top\" style=\"width:227.0pt; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; height:15.0pt\">\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:black\">Policy number:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td width=\"425\" nowrap=\"\" valign=\"bottom\" style=\"width:318.75pt; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; height:15.0pt\">\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:black\">&nbsp;LAP3_MC_2011030004&nbsp;\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr style=\"height:15.0pt\">\r\n<td width=\"303\" nowrap=\"\" valign=\"bottom\" style=\"width:227.0pt; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none; padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; height:15.0pt\">

I am reading the data and filtering out the pars i need using DomCrawler and the output is :

string(4) "�Mr�"

I have tried :

iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $l->nodeValue);

But it doesn't remove the weird diamond characters.

Any idea how to fix this??

Solution

  • Try 

     iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//IGNORE", $l->nodeValue);

    OR

     mb_convert_encoding ( $l->nodeValue, "ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8" )