Convert ' to ' with php

PHP
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Hello,
I read the content of a site with php (and simple html dom) and there are some special characters as ' ( ’ ).

I tried to convert it with html_entity_decode($lastcat->plaintext) but I did not solve it ,what have I do to convert the text with special characters to the actual text?

Thank you

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I solve it with this

html_entity_decode( $lastcat->plaintext, ENT_QUOTES )