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

Having a similar problem, I found the answer here. Not Displaying Spanish Characters

The resolution was to change from UTF-8 to windows-1252.

(HTML) 
(PHP) ini_set('default_charset', 'windows-1252');

My problem was reading Spanish characters from a CSV file. When I opened the file in Excel, the characters appeared fine. In my editor, the odd character was shown regardless of the intended character. This change seems to work for my requirements.