Escaping the trademark symbol with MySQL

[eluser]TWP Marketing[/eluser]
In a sense, Colin, you're correct.

I removed the decoding with html_entity_decode(), in my function: read_ds_record(), which fixes the problem.

Because this particular view is on the administrative side of my project, I actually WANT to see and edit the encoded text, NOT the parsed text.

When I send this same text into my User side view, where it cannot be edited, the decode will work just fine, being done with a different function, displaying the trademark symbol and any other HTML characters that are coded into the db using htmlentities().

Thanks for your help!