converting strange characters

[djpaul]

Hello,
I run a script to get some info from another site.
But on that page some 'strange' character like é.
When i grab them an display it on my site i see strange characters like Beyoncé will be Beyoncé.

I tried different functions of php but nothing seems the help.
Tried: rawurlencode, htmlspecialchars and then htmlspecialchars_encode or hetmlentities and html_entity_encode.
But the text will always be the same, any ideas?

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Thanks!
Cheers, Paul

[Dormilich]

you’re trying to display UTF-8 encoded characters in ISO format. because the two systems are different, the characters above ASCII range will display incorrect.

Rule of Thumb: weird characters most often come from the wrong charset

[djpaul]

ohke, i was almost in the good direction.
But when do i need what?
if i put that line into the variable, doe i have to do something like:

$line = html_entity_decode( $handle, UTF-8, ENT_QUOTES );

or do i have to do it when i echo it?

[Dormilich]

maybe the easiest thing is to tell the browser the content is utf-8.