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special character like " not showing properly in pdf

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I using html2fpdf library to generate a pdf in codeigniter .I have some data in a varchar field like " What are your child’s academic strengths? " which is showing like " What are your child’s academic strengths? " .





How I can show it as it is in the database .(I have tried htmlspecialchars_decode , html_entity_decode function but it not worked. )


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  1. Tips For AllFebruary 15, 2012 at 2:11 AM

    The problem maybe in retrieval,insertion of data from/to mysql using php
    You need to set the charset before saving stuff to db or reading them back.

    mysql_set_charset('utf8');


    See UTF8, PHP and MySQL

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