not being displayed properly

Question

I am having problem in displaying the   in my web page, after using utf8_decode() in PHP it gets displayed as �.

i have been using

Answer 1

That's strange since utf8_encode(' ')===' '. Regardless of whether it's utf8 or latin1 encoded the byte-sequence for   is the same.
Is the remaining string properly utf8 encoded?

edit: Why do you use utf8_decode() (converting utf8 encoded strings to latin1) in the first place when you're telling the browser that your page is utf8 encoded?