How to render special character in HTML page

[dagam3rz]

Guys I'm having so much difficulty in rendering special character to my html page. The character listed below are some of the chars I'm trying to render. I'm retrieving the character from mysql database using PHP the to HTML. I've enclosed the chars in single quote.

'´' 'Ñ' 'ñ' 'é' 'è' 'ë' 'ö' '“' '”' '’' '—' '–' '™' '§'

Please help me.

Thanks a lot.

[JKing]

Hi there.
I think what you are looking for is htmlentities().

Have a look at this link: PHP htmlentities

[dagam3rz]

Have tried it htmlentities() already but it doen't work.
Locally on my machine I was able to resolve it.
I used the code below.

function specialCharsToHtml($str){
$match_pattern =       array('´', 'Ñ', 'ñ', 'é', 'è', 'ë',
'ö', '“', '”', '’', '—', '–', '™', '§',
'á');
$replacement_pattern = array(''','Ñ','ñ', 'é', 'è', 'ë',
'ö', '“', '”', '’', '—', '–', '™', '§',
'á');
return str_replace($match_pattern, $replacement_pattern, $str);
}

When I uploaded it to my site, it doesnt work.

[JKing]

Have tried it htmlentities() already but it doen't work.
Locally on my machine I was able to resolve it.
I used the code below.

function specialCharsToHtml($str){
$match_pattern =       array('´', 'Ñ', 'ñ', 'é', 'è', 'ë',
'ö', '“', '”', '’', '—', '–', '™', '§',
'á');
$replacement_pattern = array(''','Ñ','ñ', 'é', 'è', 'ë',
'ö', '“', '”', '’', '—', '–', '™', '§',
'á');
return str_replace($match_pattern, $replacement_pattern, $str);
}

When I uploaded it to my site, it doesnt work.

<?php
$str = "´ Ñ ñ é è ë ö “ ” ’ — – ™ §";

echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES, 'cp1252');
?>

That properly translates all characters to their html entities for me.