UTF-8 encoded html pages show � (questions marks) instead of characters

Question

I have the standard XAMPP installation on win7 (x64). Having had my share of encoding troubles in a past project where mysql encoding did not match with the php enconding wh

Answer 1

In my case, database returned latin1, when my browser expected utf8.

So for MySQLi I did:

 mysqli_set_charset($dblink, "utf8");    

See http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.set-charset.php for more info