Because the encoding of my XML file is UTF-8 and the
encoding of my web page is iso-8859-1 I was getting strange characters such as ’ instead of a right single quote.
The solution to this turned out to be hard to find, but really easy to implement.
http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php
Using the iconv() function you can convert from one encodign to another, the TRANSLIT option seems to work best for what I needed. Here's my example:
<?php
// convert string from utf-8 to iso8859-1
$horoscope = iconv( "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $horoscope );
?>
I found the solution on this page...
http://tinyurl.com/lm39xc
Hope this helps