I'm using JavaScript to get the elements under the clicked elements in my website. And I'm sending the content to server side.

But some times, I'm getting some invalid characters like: â€, â–º, etc.

What is the reason for this? And how to correct it?

I'm using JavaScript to get the elements under the clicked elements in my website. And I'm sending the content to server side.

But some times, I'm getting some invalid characters like: â€, â–º, etc.

What is the reason for this? And how to correct it?

• javascript
• php
• invalid-characters

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• @HugoDozois Can you please give me an example? – Stranger Commented Aug 13, 2012 at 0:19
• look at php/manual/fr/function.utf8-encode.php and php/manual/fr/function.utf8-decode.php – Hugo Dozois Commented Aug 13, 2012 at 0:21

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â€ looks like utf-8 being misinterpreted as Windows-1252. Try setting the encoding for your pages:

<?php
header( "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

or if you prefer in .htaccess file:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Sometimes characters such as ' " , . / \ ; : & % $ # @ * (basically all symbols) and others are formatted differently if they are copied from another location. Go though and replace all punctuation and other symbols with themselves and those weird characters should go away.