What is the significance of the "Â" character in the PHP code provided in the forum thread?

The "Â" character in the PHP code is likely a result of encoding issues, specifically when non-UTF-8 characters are being displayed incorrectly. To solve this problem, you can use the `utf8_encode()` function to convert the string to UTF-8 encoding, which should properly display the characters. 

// Original string with encoding issue
$string_with_issue = "Some text with  character";

// Fix the encoding issue using utf8_encode()
$fixed_string = utf8_encode($string_with_issue);

// Output the fixed string
echo $fixed_string;

Keywords

PHP character encoding special characters UTF-8 encoding errors

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