those individual bytes were then being mis-interpreted and decoded to Unicode codepoints U+00E2 U+20AC U+2122 by one of the Windows-125X
This only forces the client which encoding to use to interpret and display the characters. But the actual problem is that you're already
В любом случае, начните с онлайн-декодера, чтобы понять с какими кодировками есть смысл работать.
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In my opinion it is better to correct the bad characters themselves than making "hacks" in the code. Simply do a replace on the field on the table. To correct the bad encoded characters from OP :
This only instructs the client which encoding to use to interpret and display the characters. This doesn't instruct your own program which encoding to use to read, write, store, and display the characters in.
In order make the translation of a Unicode message, reassociate each identifier code its Unicode character.
Простой Можно ли узнать какая кодировка использовалась в системе, в которой был создан файл?
You can also fix some of these strings in PHP if necessary. Note that because characters have been encoded twice
1 To give a bit context to my previous comment, the OP literally commented "Or use ’" . problem is solved. But apparently the OP realized years later he was embarrasingly wrong so he deleted his comment.
Âñ¸ áûëî áóêâàëüíî íà ãðàíè êàòàñòðîôû. Íî ðÿäîì áûëè öâåòû â ãîðøêàõ, è íåîáîææ¸ííûå ñîñíû, è òðóùèåñÿ î íîãè ñîáàêè, è ðåñòîðàí, îòêðûòûé äëÿ óæèíà; è ÷óâñòâîâàëîñü, ÷òî âñå íà óëèöå âçäûõàþò ñ áëàãîäàðíîñòüþ çà òî, ÷òî âñ¸ ýòî ó íèõ åù¸ åñòü. Õîòÿ áû íåíàäîëãî (Äèàíà Ìàðêóì, Äåñÿòûé îñòðîâ).
If your content type is already UTF8 , then it is likely the data is already arriving in the wrong encoding. If you are getting the data from a database, make sure the database connection uses UTF-8.
where the problem is. One example would be HTML form submitted values which are incorrectly encoded/decoded.
До какой степени в угоду символы равным образом до чего Ïàìÿíèêè íà ìîãèëó âîåííûì â Ìîñêâå перевести повсечастно нормальный Данил Кулаков