Displaying special characters?

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Joined: Feb 2005

I have the following in a file:
Příšerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy

When I print it out using (PHP) htmlspecialchars(utf8_decode($line), ENT_QUOTES) I get:

P?�?ern? ?lu?ou?k� k?? �p?l ?�belsk� �dy

Can anyone help me so that it will display correctly?

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Busy's picture

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ř = ř
& #159; = Ÿ (no spaces)

going by the first word, which I take is patterns none of it makes sense.
Do you know what character set was used and what the sentence should be?
you can use the character map (under system tools on start) to try narrow them down

Renegade's picture

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Is it a long string of characters you need to display? I made a page a while ago (no longer exists, except on wayback machine) which you could refer to:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050220013434/chengeu.sitebug.com/index.php?page=ascii

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