We have script to receive data from a device. The information contains device id, latitude, longitude etc.
We are getting all other data except device id(which is at beginning of below string) in readable format.
$$�1233Oÿÿ™U095933.000,A,4949.4194,N,00839.0009,E,0.00,194,080816,
I have set UTF-8 in PHP code and MySQL db (where it stores data) and even in php.ini as character set.