title: MySQL Insert Column Half Inserted
body: <p>This is a bit of a weird one really, and probably something I haven't done correctly, but for some reason when I am inserting or updating in MySQL (using a PHP Class to create), for some reason the text being inserted (an HTML copy of an email in this case) is only half inserted ... it keeps breaking when it sees '–'</p>
  
  <p>I do not think this is a standard hyphen since it looks ever so slightly different in the browser bar and even in this text area my hyphen '-' is narrower than '–'. I've tried HTML Entities, but will not convert, so an suggestions when dealing with this troublesome character?</p>
  
  <p>Though I should probably say, if I use PHP My Admin to directly insert the HTML body (exactly the same formatting, everything gets inserted. I've even tried <code>str_replace</code> to remove it with no luck. I've also replaced words with a lot more words but that worked (yet it still cut off before that character showed.....</p>