problem with str_replace on string from mysql

[bearhead]

I’m trying to use this php to replace characters in a text string I’ve taken from a mysql database:

str_replace(array('“', '”', '’', '®', '—'), array('"', '"', "'", '®', '-'), $row{'description'});

Instead of seeing the characters I’m trying to use as replacements, I’m just seeing missing character symbols when the page renders in browser.

If I run that same str_replace code on a string not taken from mysql, it works as expected.

The “description” field in mysql is set to use character set: utf8

what am I missing?

[ovi]

Make sure the PHP file where you use this function is encoded as UTF-8.

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