Database content shows utf-8 encoded caracters but the ones written in php are not shown

Question

I have php website, my database content is encoded properly, but content i typed in html doesn't show utf-8 encoding caracters, when I am accessing site through my smartphone. I did put

    header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

and

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

in my head tag, but it still doesn't work. Does anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

Please try to execute this queries before selection of data:

SET NAMES UTF8; 
SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8';
SET SESSION collation_connection = 'utf8_general_ci';

It will set the fetched data encoding to UTF-8.

Also, did you store your data or your script source code with BOM? Try to remove it using some text editor, i.e. Notepad++