htmlentities and htmlspecialchars not working

[phpeter]

The output of my script is something like "Android Chief On Windows Phone 7: “The World Doesn’t Need Another Platformâ€"

 

I've tried using htmlentities and htmlspecialchars to convert the original text (left/right pointing quotation marks and apostrophes instead of straight ones), but I still get the weird characters.

[joel24]

if you're using html_entities to encode you'll need to use html_entity_decode() to decode or if you're using html_specialchars() to encode, use html_specialchars_decode()