PHP Curl Not formatting quotes properly; producing weird character set for single/double quotes

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Published on 2011-01-29T15:22:42Z Indexed on 2011/01/29 15:25 UTC
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I wrote a html scraper to scrape my various social identites, so I can make a real time 'biography' website.

However after using php curl_exec, I find that texts that I have quoted, end up being formatted in a weird character set.

ex: "I love dogs" gets formatted to ’I love dogs ’ "I hate cheese" gets formatted to “I hate cheese�

How do I either scrub these characters, or set curl not to format quotes like this.

Also, I have turned off magic_quotes.

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