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I am getting output as 

FBI believed he had a ‘doomsday device’

instead of

FBI believed he had a ‘doomsday device’

when i am using 

iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//IGNORE", $topic);

output is

FBI believed he had a âdoomsday deviceâ

I am not using any header or charset in my file.

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Got why is this happening

when the UTF-8 series of numbers is interpreted as if it were ISO-8859-1 the output is

’

Explaination

0xE28099 breaks down as 0xE2 (â), 0x80 (€) and 0x99 (™). What was one character in UTF-8 (’) gets mistakenly displayed as three (’) when misinterpreted as ISO-8859-1.

Still no solution to convert it

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    Why not fix the root of the problem instead? See UTF-8 all the way through Commented Dec 6, 2012 at 16:02
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    Are these string coming from a mysql database? try running this before running the select queries : SET NAMES 'UTF-8' Commented Dec 6, 2012 at 16:05
  • yes these are coming from mysql database. setting to utf8 using procedural style prints blank no data is displayed Commented Dec 6, 2012 at 16:09
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    It's probably UTF-8 shown in a single-byte encoding like ISO-8859-1. Commented Dec 6, 2012 at 16:18
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    Should probably be noted that browsers don't really support ISO-8859-1 and that characters like €, ’ and ‘ are unrepresentable in ISO-8859-1. There is no reason to use ISO-8859-1 over Windows-1252 ever (in this context :P I'm sure it has uses because all the 256 characters are first 256 characters in unicode as well) because it just has useless control characters in place of characters like € Commented Dec 6, 2012 at 16:42

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Well the output page is being interpreted in Windows-1252, not ISO-8859-1..

I recommend setting your header charset to utf-8:

In apache config:

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

Php.ini:

default_charset utf-8

Manually in php:

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

If you cannot do anything of the above because of some weird reasons, you should then convert into Windows-1252 instead:

iconv("UTF-8", "Windows-1252//IGNORE", $topic);
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when I did iconv one the third option which is in my question is displayed
@NavneetPandey read carefully, my iconv is different from yours. Your iconv has ISO-8859-1, mine has Windows-1252.
@NavneetPandey You are leaving something out then. You should show full code regarding this.

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