UTF8 encoding not working when using ajax

Question

I recently changed some of my pages to be displayed via ajax and I am having some confusion as to why the utf8 encoding is now displaying a question mark inside of a box, wh

Answer 1

Encoding is more than specifying the meta tag and content type - the files themselves must really be in the encoding you specify, or you'll get mojibake.

Check that everything is using UTF-8, your database, database connection, table columns. Check that any static files you are including are also encoded in UTF-8.