French characters encoding

Some times you will face a problem with french?other language characters in your web page that are not being displayed correctly. Such as instead of apostrophe.. And the solution lies in sing the meta charset='utf-8' in your page header. and also to convert the encoding of this piece of data to utf. Sometimes you might find our this is encoded twice, then you will need to decode it or convert to iso then to utf-8 again. Here are some few suggestions

$billTitle         = utf8_encode(htmlentities($billTitle, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"));

$billTitle         = utf8_decode($billTitle);

$billTitle         = mb_convert_encoding($billTitle, "HTML-ENTITIES", "UTF-8" );

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