Of course this has been asked before and have searched for solutions, all which have not worked thus far. I want to change out the TM symbol and the ampersand to their html equivelents by using htmlentities or htmlspecialchars:
$TEST = "Kold Locker™ & other stuff"; echo "ORGINIAL: " . $TEST . "<BR/>"; echo "HTML: " . htmlentities($TEST, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
This displays:
ORGINIAL: Kold Locker™ & other stuff HTML:
I have also tried it with htmlspecialchars and the second parameter changed with the same result.
What am I missing that others have claimed worked in other solutions?
UPDATE: I tried just displaying utf8_encode($TEST) and it displayed HTML: Kold Locker™ & other stuff
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Answer
Your code works for me 😕
In the manual page for htmlentities() we can read:
Return Values
Returns the encoded string.
If the input string contains an invalid code unit sequence within the given encoding an empty string will be returned, unless either the ENT_IGNORE or ENT_SUBSTITUTE flags are set.
My guess is that the input data is not properly encoded as UTF-8 and the function is returning an empty string. (Assuming that the script is not crashing, i.e., code after that part still runs.)