title: UTF-8 output with CakePHP
body: <p>I'm trying to move some Excel-Data to MySQL, but having troubles with encoding.</p>
  
  <p>What I did:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Data export from <em>OpenOffice 3.1</em> as <strong>csv</strong> (<em>utf-8</em> encoded)</li>
  <li>Import to phpMyAdmin via file upload (Table encoding: '<em>utf8_unicode_ci</em>')</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>In phpMyAdmin's <em>view</em> mode, the data is displayed correctly (it is using utf-8 as charset):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I try to display the Data on my webpage, I get a hash with a question mark in it.</p>
  
  <p><strong>System-Info</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The language I try to get on my page:
  German</li>
  <li>MySQL client version: 5.0.32</li>
  <li>My OS: MAC OS X 10.5.7</li>
  <li>Server-Script: CakePHP v1.2.3.8166</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Regards,
  Benedikt</p>