HTML double left quote, htmlentities

Question

Hi I am having trouble with a certain character in PHP. the character is “ which should return

“

but when I do

echo htmlentities('“');

I get

�

What Am I doing wrong??

Answer 1

Try using online interpreter like this one codeonline.

It returned the quote (") without an issue in my case. For further documentation, check documentation:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

(FYI, more sandbox tools can be found in this thread).

Answer 2

It looks like your file is in utf-8 and version of php is less than 5.4 so tell htmlentities this.

echo htmlentities('“', ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, "UTF-8");