title: Weird dash character in PHP
body: <p>I have a weird dash in my text, which isn't being detected in a <code>str_replace</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Here is an example:</p>
  
  <p><code>Sun: 10:00 – 3:00pm</code></p>
  
  <p>I don't know if the dash will show up on here.. but when it is inserted into my table, it is like a square box with the characters <code>0096</code></p>
  
  <p>It looks a lot like an <code>&amp;ndash;</code> - when viewing the source, there is no special characters, just the dash.</p>
  
  <pre><code>str_replace('–', '', $var);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The above replace doesn't seem to catch it, has anyone else had this trouble before?</p>