PHP messing with HTML Charset Encoding

Question

I have this very strange problem. I have a site that contains some German letters and when it\'s only html without php the symbols are property displayed with encoding when

Answer 1

Updated I need to get my encode/decode de-confused.

When you're in PHP try decoding the string in UTF-8 before output.

$str = 'I ãm UTF-8';
echo(utf8_decode($str));

This worked for me:

Test: 

Value in Input (via Cut n Paste):

I ãm UTF-8: ÖMG!