// Replace unreadable characters from the description (e.g.  )http://stats.buysellads.com/click.go?z=1293852&b=4548767&g=&s=&sw=1280&sh=800&br=safari,537.75,mac&r=0.3525264321360737&link=https://www.vultr.com
$string = utf8_decode($full_event_desc);
$string = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//IGNORE", $string);    // ignore non UTF-8 characters
$temp = utf8_decode('Â');
$string = str_replace($temp, '', $string);   // replace  character with a space
$string = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9_ %\[\]\.\(\)%&-]/s', ' ', $string);  // regular expression