Title: Character encoding – quotation marks
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Character encoding – quotation marks

 *  Resolved [retrocool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retrocool/)
 * (@retrocool)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-quotation-marks/)
 * I’m getting an issue for this tweet:
    [https://twitter.com/circulareconomy/status/565147274419126273](https://twitter.com/circulareconomy/status/565147274419126273)..
   where smart quote marks come through as different special characters:
 * The website shows euro signs and a-carat instead of the directional quote marks:
   
   RT @circulareconomy: “Synthetic materials are reaching their limits” – latest#
   biomimicry innovation: ‘unbreakable glass’ [http://t.co/itMn3374zP](http://t.co/itMn3374zP)
   via @mcgilldaily
 * And the source is:
    “Synthetic materials are reaching their limits†– latest
   [#biomimicry](http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23biomimicry) innovation: ‘unbreakable
   glass’
 * The page is here hssmi.premonition.co.uk/wp/
    Document is UTF-8
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 *  Thread Starter [retrocool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retrocool/)
 * (@retrocool)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-quotation-marks/#post-5786101)
 * This was caused because I was filtering rstw_output through PHP domdocument.
   
   Not a RSTW issue:
 * [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8218230/php-domdocument-loadhtml-not-encoding-utf-8-correctly?rq=1](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8218230/php-domdocument-loadhtml-not-encoding-utf-8-correctly?rq=1)

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