// protect the recycle symbol from turning into a tag, but without unescaping angles and naked ampersands
$s = str_replace('♲', html_entity_decode('♲', ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'), $s);
// protect the recycle symbol from turning into a tag, but without unescaping angles and naked ampersands
$s = str_replace('♲', html_entity_decode('♲', ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'), $s);