Non Breaking space converted to a strange charcter (encoding);

Question

I have imported some text from ISO-8859-1 to a UTF8 database after import i found that   has become two weird characters Â* when I checked this with phpmyadmin I found it looks like Â the Asterisk doesn't exist so I couldn't match it on a replace query, all what I want is to replace this character with a space via mysql query. thanks for your help

Answer 1

Try using utf8_encode before inserting it into the database.

Answer 2

You can UPDATE table fields with REPLACE(text_string, from_string, to_string) function.. see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_replace

Answer 3

after some check, I could match the required character combination Â+space I could match the space with alt+0160 not normal space