U+00E2  LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
U+0080  An unnamed control character
U+009C  STRING TERMINATOR, a control character
q
u
o
t
e
s
U+00E2  LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
U+0080  An unnamed control character
U+009D  OPERATING SYSTEM COMMAND, a control character

##</code><code>##

U+201C  LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
q
u
o
t
e
s
U+201D  RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

##</code><code>##

encode_entities("\xe2\x80\x9cquotes\xe2\x80\x9d")

##</code><code>##

encode_entities("\x{201C}quotes\x{201D}")

##</code><code>##

encode_entities(decode("UTF-8", "\xe2\x80\x9cquotes\xe2\x80\x9d"))