Convert some HTML entities to characters, using the Western European character-set in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to convert some HTML entities to characters, using the Western European character-set.

Example

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<?php
    $str = "#039;";
    echo html_entity_decode($str, ENT_QUOTES, "ISO-8859-1");
?>

The code above generates the following result.