{"id":6391,"date":"2021-04-15T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truehost.co.ke\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=6391"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:03:12","password":"","slug":"fix-opencart-warning-html_entity_decode-charset-utf-8","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/fix-opencart-warning-html_entity_decode-charset-utf-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix OpenCart Warning: html_entity_decode(): charset `UTF-8;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OpenCart is an opensource ecommerce CMS. 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