Displaying apostrophes in PHP

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  1. #1
    I have a PHP page. I just started to add text to the page. When I try to have the text Small Business's I get this:

    Small Business�s

    Any thoughts on how correct this?

    thx,
     
    jawinn, Nov 5, 2006 IP
  2. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    #2
    Look into character encoding for HTML documents.
     
    T0PS3O, Nov 5, 2006 IP
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  3. irunbackwards

    irunbackwards Peon

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    #3
    if you're echo'ing it, try to escape the character

    echo "Chuck\'s Bar & Grill";
    Code (markup):
    Maybe that should work for ya?
     
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  4. jawinn

    jawinn Active Member

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    #4
    Wow I kind of snickered when I saw this comment; but that did the trick.
    My encoding was not set correctly.

    Thanks!
     
    jawinn, Nov 5, 2006 IP
  5. TwistMyArm

    TwistMyArm Peon

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    #5
    Just to clarify: I'm guessing that you copy and pasted the text from Word or something, right? Those are 'smart' apostrophes and are different from normal apostrophes, hence the problem.
     
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  6. jawinn

    jawinn Active Member

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    No, I was missing this in my header:
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
    Code (markup):
     
    jawinn, Nov 5, 2006 IP