UTF-8 not working

Question

I have an Issue with the UTF-8 Charset. When I define UTF-8 as the used charset on my Webpage, all my special characters transform into �. I tried the following methods and everything gave me the same result.

via PHP

 header('Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8');

via HTML

 <meta charset="utf-8">

via .htaccess

 AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

EDIT: All my Databases in MySQL (where my Text-Content lies) are defined as utf8_general_ci

+EDIT: Solved The Issue lied in PDO. After adding following code it worked.

$dbh->exec("set names utf8");

If the data is coming from a database then this too must be set for utf-8. Also, what font are you using - this may not have the particular characters that you need to display. — , Oct 04 '14 at 00:30
Did you make sure that your text file is saved as utf-8 ? in notepad++ or something — el3ien, Oct 04 '14 at 00:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '14 at 00:34

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Most fonts don't include all UNICODE characters, are you sure the font you use on your website can render character you are displaying?

You can download Noto in any form and shape to test if that is your issue.

answered Oct 04 '14 at 00:34

nana

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It's one of the Standard HTML Fonts Times New Roman. And without the definition it get's showed correctly on Windows. I wanted to define UTF-8 because Mac don't show it up correctly. – Jyunpey Oct 04 '14 at 00:36
Could you post the characters you're trying to display? – nana Oct 04 '14 at 00:37
The Standard characters like äüö – Jyunpey Oct 04 '14 at 00:39
Is the data coming from a database? If so is the db set correctly to UTF-8 also? – nana Oct 04 '14 at 00:42
Yes my SQL Database is set to UTF-8 – Jyunpey Oct 04 '14 at 00:44

UTF-8 not working

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