Removing weird characters when scraping a page

[s1mplygo1d]

Hi,
I am scraping the contents of a page (this isn't for scraping for spammy sites or anything. 2 seperate servers need to share information sometimes, quickest/easiest way is to just scrape it).

But everytime there is a bullet point, em dash or anything, it puts in extra characters like ”.

How can i stop this? It displays fine on the page it is being scraped from. And they have the same character encoding on both pages.

I am doing it in php, btw.

 

[glowleaf]

Hah! There are tons of ways to synchronize servers, scraping the content is the worst.
You problem is with character encoding.

Usually turning everything to utf8 works. And I mean everything, html encoding type, mysql data types, all of them.

CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci

Usually fixes the sql issues.

 

[Enigmabomb]

Scraping a server for sync? That just feels dirty.