convert apostrophe and other character encoded to utf-8 normal symbols
$string = 'À ¢A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>' ; echo html_entity_decode ( $string , ENT_QUOTES ).PHP_EOL; echo mb_convert_encoding ( $string , "UTF-8" , "HTML-ENTITIES" ); À ¢A 'quote' is <b>bold</b> À ¢A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>