Usernames tranferred from phpBB3 not displayed correctly

[MarkHoward]

I have phpFreeChat integrated with a phpBB3 forum.
Some of the usernames that contains special characters eg "&" or " ' " are not displaying properly in the Chat.
I have

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$params["nick"] = iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8", $user->data['username_clean']);//Autologin with session username

in the params list.
I remember seeing another similar iconv somewhere but cannot now find it.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[MarkHoward]

Here is an example "‹gayʹzin›" Should have been gay'zin.
Hope someone can help.