funny looking charcters showing up on my site

Ok i am scraping a website than uploading it to another site the other site uses zen cart. The problem is iam scraping the data from another site than uploading it to my site when i upload it i get funny looking charecters were commas suppose to be or were a dash suppose to be etc. I use a piece of software that i have been using for a long time to scrape the data i will tell you the program later. I will show you the problem in your inbox exactly. I will require you to diagnose the problem and fix it. I dont know if it is something to do with my scraping software (doubtful. Something to do with my database or my zen cart install but whatever it is you will be required to fix it. Thanks and happy bidding. Also i did not know if the category i put this is in is right so if it is not just leave a message on the board with a way to message u.