strange � sign in html text

Question

I have a very strange problem...

Inside a wordpress website i have this � sign when text are finished...

you can see it here in the left square.

Screenshot attached here to make its more clear.

Thanks!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31382524/all-is-on-utf8-but-i-still-got-strange-char-like — mplungjan, Jan 19 '16 at 10:22

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 19 '16 at 10:45

ok - finally i understand that its because the substr() php function... and in utf-8 you need to use the mb_substr() function like this:

<?php
        $utf8string = "cakeæøå";
        echo mb_substr($utf8string,0,5,'UTF-8');
?>

and NOT like this:

<?php
           $utf8string = "cakeæøå";
           echo substr($utf8string,0,5);
?>

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 19 '16 at 10:51

0

By above solution you will get rid of only for this text but think if same problem on more variables.

Please define character encoding scheme as below in the header.

  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

answered Jan 19 '16 at 10:51

Deepak Dholiyan

add this : didn't fix the problem... – Erez Lieberman Jan 19 '16 at 10:55
please read the given url, you will find answer. Here all the details are provided. – Deepak Dholiyan Jan 19 '16 at 10:59
thanks for your answer but that's not the point...the website has the tag and that's something with mb_substr function as i wrote above – Erez Lieberman Jan 19 '16 at 11:03
you can check database column collation type and need to change this to utf8_general_ci . – Deepak Dholiyan Jan 19 '16 at 11:29

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