How to display special characters in PHP

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Answer by philtune for How to display special characters in PHP

After much banging-head-on-table, I have a bit better understanding of the issue that I wanted to post for anyone else who may have had this issue.

While the UTF-8 character set will display special characters on the client, the server, on the other hand, may not be so accomodating and would print special characters such as ? and ? as ? and ?.

To make sure your server will print them correctly, us the ISO-8859-1 charset: