title: Post data with special character
body: <p>I have problem when post data in php that contain special character:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>String: ? &lt; > ' - \" `´&amp; % ‰ € ® 2011</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>that always display</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>String: ? &lt; > ' - " `Â´&amp; % â€° â‚¬ Â® 2011</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>i changed form attribute be:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form  id="frmBlog"method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and also i change html with meta attribute:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but the result still same. anyone can help to fix this problem. thank you</p>
  
  <p>my simple code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
      echo $_POST['content'];
      exit;
  }
  
  $content = "String: ? &lt; &gt; ' - \" ´&amp; % ‰ € ® 2011";
  ?&gt;
  
  &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Test&lt;/title&gt;
       &lt;meta charset="UTF-8" /&gt;
      &lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0"&gt;
      &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
    &lt;/head&gt;
    &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;form method="post"&gt;
          &lt;textarea name="content" rows="20"&gt;&lt;?=
          $content
          ?&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  
          &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" /&gt;
      &lt;/form&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>String: ? &lt; &gt; ' - " Â´&amp; % â€° â‚¬ Â® 2011
  </code></pre>