html_entity_decode not working for some html entities like 

Question

I have the following code:

echo html_entity_decode("&#132;", ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");

Result is  but expected result is „.

I also tried ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8, but it's still the same.

Why isn't html_entity_decode working in this case?

That is a special character, not html entity. This might help. stackoverflow.com/questions/1262038/… — blupointmedia
– blupointmedia, Commented Dec 11, 2019 at 17:29

Otávio Barreto · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-11 17:48:36Z

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This is a special char, not html entity, so I thin this would be the right way.

<?php
    $str = "&#132;";
    echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str);

    ?>

answered Dec 11, 2019 at 17:48

Otávio Barreto

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I just ran that code. It output  when the desired output is „