How To Get The Original Punctuation Characters Back

[Gazley]

Sorry Guys,

This is a refinement of an earlier question that introduced Textile as a bit of a red-herring! It's nothing to do with Textile.

You can see below, the words "touch up" are wrapped with the funky "â" character. 

Sometimes, you just need a digital âtouch upâ, just to bring out the very best in you.

This is the same for apostrophes too:

 

As Iâve said in 

 

This text is stored in a TextArea field that uses Textile to process text, not TinyMC or CkEditor. When it renders, the various pieces of punctuation are rendered on the page using "â".

 

Any ideas how I can just get the proper punctuation to show?

 

Thanks!

 

[Gazley]

Hmmm, so I looked further through my code where I was subsequently used a DOMDocument that set its own encoding. I had to do pass the string in as:

mb_convert_encoding($blogData, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8')

This made everything happy

Thanks.