Spanish Characters not Displaying Correctly

Question

I am getting the lovely � box where spanish characters should be displayed. (ie: ñ, á, etc). I have already made sure that my meta http-equiv is set to utf-8:

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Answer 1

Things to consider in PHP/MySQL/UTF-8

• The database tables and text columns should be set to UTF-8

• HTML page Content-Type should be set to UTF-8

• PHP should send a header informing the browser to expect UTF-8

  header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );

• The PHP-MySQL connection should be set to UTF-8

  mysqli_query("SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT='utf8'",$conn);

  mysqli_query("SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS='utf8'",$conn);

  mysqli_query("SET CHARACTER_SET_CONNECTION='utf8'",$conn);

• PHP ini has default_charset setting it should be utf-8 if you do not have access to it use ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8');