PHP: Why does html entities function not properly work?

Why does html entities function not properly work?

I tried the htmlentities() function with PHP 5 with this code: <?php $string="Einstürzende Neubauten"; echo htmlentities($string); ?> And it only displays two whitespaces (i.e. " "). Why is that? I tried to replace the "u with diaeresis" char with another and it works. How can i get that work too? Anwer use charset for your given content to .... eg $res = htmlentities ( $string, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'); For more informations take a look in the manual htmlentities()

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