utf 8 - How to convert Windows-1252 characters to values in php? -

we have several database fields contain windows-1252 characters:

an example pain— if you’re 

those values map desired values list:

http://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html

i've tried various permutations of htmlentites, mb_detect_encoding, uft8_decode, etc, have not yet been able transform values to:

an example pain — if you're

how can transform these characters listed values in php?

you can use mb_convert_encoding

$str = "an example pain— if you’re"; $str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "windows-1252", "utf-8"); echo $str; //an example pain— if you’re 

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demo:
http://ideone.com/nsib5x