php - Removing non-utf characters using php5 -

php - Removing non-utf characters using php5 -

i trying display info on webpage contains non-utf8 characters. user uploads tab separated file filemaker databse our oracle database via web form. display info through user webpage.

one record has character i've not seen before. letters, 'vt' in square. sort of [vt]. pasting here, wont show in setting. attaching image. if not show, line of text character in looks this:

'blue color[vt]blue web page find more information.[vt]blue nice color' ![vt character](http://www.johndcowan.com/graphics/vt-special-chars.png)

i've tried these php functions no luck:

$answer = iconv("utf-8", "utf-8//ignore", $answer); $answer = htmlspecialchars($answer); $answer = strip_tags($answer);

anyone have thought how 86 character?

php utf-8