title: Why can't I get rid of this Â&nbsp;?
body: <p>Each line is a string</p>
  
  <pre><code>Â&amp;nbsp;4 
  Â&amp;nbsp;minutes 
  Â&amp;nbsp;12
  Â&amp;nbsp;minutes
  Â&amp;nbsp;16
  Â&amp;nbsp;minutes
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  <p>I was able to remove the <code>Â</code> successfully using <code>str_replace</code> but not the HTML entity. I found this question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/657643/how-to-remove-html-special-chars-in-php">How to remove html special chars?</a></p>
  
  <p>But the preg_replace did not do the job. How can I remove the HTML entity and that A?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong>
  I think I should have said this earlier: I am using <code>DOMDocument::loadHTML()</code> and <code>DOMXpath</code>.
  <strong>Edit:</strong>
  Since this seems like an encoding issue, I should say that this is actually all separate strings.</p>