Question

I have database content display problem on my page it is displaying the � in place of html special chars such as &,',"", and double space. I have exported the database from one server and imported it to another server. I used the str_replace and strip tags to remove it but didn’t work. I have also checked the collation on both database that is same in both database and charset=utf-8 in meta tag on the page. Please let me know how can I remove this symbol and display the spacial chars.

Thanks

Answer 1

Try to run mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'") after your connection. This sometimes happens when your connection has the wrong default character set defined by default.