I have a situation wherein my inclusion of accented characters works in my HTML, but fails on text imported from the database.
The HTML text encoding assignment is the same as I have always used:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
…
And when I enter a word such as "téléphone" directly in the HTML, it works as well as it always has.
If that same word comes from a database, it becomes "t?l?phone". (The "?" shows as a black diamond with a question mark within.)
Based on this, I assume I have a workflow encoding error. However, I'm surprised not to find much on the googlizer or SO regarding this.
My database consists of InnoDB tables encoded in utf8_unicode_ci.
I want to be able to include a variety of European scripts, including cyrillic, hence the utf8_unicode_ci.
I'm a bit lost at this point.
Au secours?
