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<?php echo "Coss&eacute"; echo utf8_decode("Coss&eacute"); echo iconv("ASCII","UTF-8//TRANSLIT","Coss&eacute"); $in_utf8encoded = "é à ù è ò Coss&eacute"; // first you need the convert the string to the charset you want... $in_iso8859encoded = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", $in_utf8encoded); // ...in order to make htmlentities work with the same charset //$out_iso8859= htmlentities($in_iso8859encoded, ENT_COMPAT, "ISO-8859-1"); // then only to display in your page, revert it back to utf-8 echo iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $in_iso8859encoded);

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