Probably you had a problem to show a Euro sign on a web page like on the next figure.
Code source:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$str = "Price: 99,99€";
echo htmlentities($str)."<br />";
echo html_entity_decode($str)."<br />";
?>
</body>
</html>
It happens because web page can have a charset setted UTF-8 (<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">) or a ISO-8859-1 (<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">).
To show correctly sign Euro, you must set charset ISO-8859-15 (<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15">) as you can see next picture.
Besides you set charset ISO-8859-15, you must use PHP function html_entity_decode(string) but must not use PHP function htmlentities(string).