How to convert Windows-1252 characters to values in php?

Question

We have several database fields that contain Windows-1252 characters:

an example pain— if you’re

Those values map to the desired values from this list:

http://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html

I've tried various permutations of htmlentites, mb_detect_encoding, uft8_decode, etc, but have not yet been able to transform those values to:

an example pain — if you're

How can I transform these characters to their listed values in php?

Answer 1

You can use mb_convert_encoding

$str = "an example pain— if you’re";
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "Windows-1252", "UTF-8");
echo $str;
//an example pain— if you’re

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DEMO:
http://ideone.com/NsIb5x