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thanks for the trigger to re-look at that (there were two doc-type &nbsp; tags!)
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when i view a particular web page via a browser, the<br />
one-fourth character shows as ¼ &nbsp;(displays as a fraction character)<br />
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when i scrape the same page and display,<br />
it's converted to ¿ &nbsp; &nbsp;which appears in my browser as a black diamond with a white ?<br />
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is there an option for cURL not to translate character sets?<br />
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thanks
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when i view a particular web page via a browser, the
one-fourth character shows as ¼  (displays as a fraction character)

when i scrape the same page and display,
it's converted to ¿    which appears in my browser as a black diamond with a white ?

is there an option for cURL not to translate character sets?

thanks

php cURL returned character set

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