Help with string encoding

[jasongr]

Hi people

I have a string with the following content:

$buffer = "árboles genealógicos gratis"; 

Which is the sentence árboles genealógicos gratis encoded (The statement means Genealogy family trees in Spanish)
I am looking for a PHP function that will conver the content of the buffer above to:

$buffer = "árboles genealógicos gratis"; 

This is just an example. My input buffer may contain other encoded characters that will also need to be decoded.

any suggestions?

Jason

[php_daemon]

Your both strings are identical

Perhaps you're looking for htmlentities

[stereofrog]

or html_entity_decode