Euro sign shows as € when form is submitted

[eluser]cheungj[/eluser]
[quote author="InsiteFX" date="1340914711"]htmlentities
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Thanks for the response. htmlentities didn't work for me though.

Ok, I want to better explain this...
Currently, my database is storing the € sign as '& euro;' (without the space).
I am displaying it in a textarea on a form as the euro sign -- €.
I'm then retrieving the textarea in a post in the controller:

Code:

$description $this->input->post('description');
var_dump($description);

The place where the € sign should display, is just blank.
This is when 'accept-charset' => 'ISO-8859-15' OR when 'accept-charset' => 'ISO-8859-1'.
When 'accept-charset' => 'UTF-8', the € sign is displayed as €.
It seems as if the form's accept-charset is incorrect.