Utf-8 encoding not working on utf-8 encoded document using php 5.5

Question

I am experiencing a very strange kind of encoding problem i don\'t really understand and never had before. I am using PHP 5.5 on an Ubuntu machine just for the info.

Answer 1

Not an answer but too long for a comment:

Could you please try

', $s, '
';
for($i=0; $i';

in the place where you had ?
What's the output of that?