are replaced by some strange characters like Ã©.</span></p>
Don't use UTF-8 with the standard fonts; they expect text encoded in windows-1252.
You can perform a conversion with iconv:
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<pre><code>$str = iconv('UTF-8', 'windows-1252', $str);</code></pre>
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Or with mbstring:
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<pre><code>$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, 'windows-1252', 'UTF-8');</code></pre>
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In case you need characters outside windows-1252, take a look at tutorial #7 or
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