I need help in special characters to my phpmyadmin

Question

Am try to insert strings containing special characters like single quote and double quote (',") but it's refusing to insert or even when it does and I want to display it in HTML it shows codes instead the character I typed.

For instance I have a form when i type things with single quotation mark like this These are an example's of them because of the single quote it does not insert it into myphpadmin and if I display them it shows characters like this 
&#13 please someone should me correct these two mistakes

Answer 1

Is this pasted content from MS word? It may be that they are the smart quotes or curly quotes instead of the normal quotes If so I use this function to clean them

( normal quotes are ' single " double ).

function convert_smart_quotes($text){
        $search = array(
            "\xe2\x80\x98", // "'"
            "\xe2\x80\x99", // "'"
            "\xe2\x80\x9c", // '"'
            "\xe2\x80\x9d", // '"'
            "\xe2\x80\x93", // '-'
            "\xe2\x80\x94", // '-'
            "\xe2\x80\xa6", // '...'
            chr(145),
            chr(146),
            chr(147),
            chr(148),
            chr(150),
            chr(151),
            chr(133)    
        );

        $replace = array(
            "'",
            "'",
            '"',
            '"',
            '-',
            '-',
            '...',
            "'",
            "'",
            '"',
            '"',
            '-',
            '-',
            '...'
        );

        $text = str_replace($search, $replace, $text);

        return $text;
    }

p.s. the OP would most likely have a syntax error in his query if they where normal quotes and not escaped properly.