title: php not encoding em dash (among other things correctly);
body: <p>I have a small JSON object that I'd like to send to php to put in a mySQL database. Part of the information in the string is html entities. <code>&amp;emdash</code> is giving me problems. It is showing up as <code>â€</code>. There are some other problems with <code>é</code> displaying as <code>Ã©</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I seem to be having some encoding problems. Any idea what could be wrong? Thanks</p>