title: PHP and accent characters (Ba\u015f\u00e7\u0131l)
body: <p>I have a string like so "Ba\u015f\u00e7\u0131l". I'm assuming those are some special accent characters. How do I:</p>
  
  <p>1) Display the string with the accents (i.e replace code with actual character)</p>
  
  <p>2) What is best practice for storing strings like this?</p>
  
  <p>2) If I don't want to allow such characters, how do I replace it with "normal characters"?</p>