title: Display Japanese characters in my HTML
body: <p>I've googled this but some of the questions seem a bit of of date. I'll ask a fresh one!</p>
  
  <p>We would like to translate some of our webpages into Japanese. We want to have a MySQL table with 2 columns, English and Japanese.</p>
  
  <p>I want to output the Japanese rows if a certain condition is met (such as a querystring value).</p>
  
  <p>To test this quickly I have pasted some Japanese words into an HTML file and tried to preview in the browser but all I get is question marks.</p>
  
  <p>町/市* - seems to be working on StackOverflow!</p>
  
  <p>In my header is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I was under the impression this was what I was meant to use for them to display correctly. Where am I going wrong?</p>