Why is this the extended ascii character (â, é, etc) getting replaced with <?> characters?

Question

Why is this the extended ascii character (â, é, etc) getting replaced with characters?

I attached a pic... but I am using PHP to pull the data from MySQL,

Answer 1

These special characters generally appear due to the the extensions. If we provide a meta tag with charset=utf-8 we can eliminate them by adding:

to your meta tags