I'm perplexed as to why it's working correctly on the live site There's strange characters in the db and there's no charset in the connection script!
I've looked into converting characters manually in the db using find/replace, but that looks like a snipe hunt at best.
Literally seeing things like this everywhere: ’
Again, another site that I recently migrated had the exact same scenario and it's now displaying correctly simply after I added the charset to the connection script.
What would you recommend at this point?