title: Charset of Apache (XAMPP) Server
body: <p>I run a XAMPP Apache PHP Server on my Mac and I am facing the following problem: German special characters like ä ö ü and ß are displayed with strange questiontags instead of the correct symbol. I assume a misconfiguration of the server, since the files are all saved in UTF-8 and contain</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the -Tag of the files.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone an idea how to get rid of those � ? I thought already of the httpd.conf , but there is already something like </p>
  
  <pre><code>#UTF 8
  AddDefaultCharset utf-8
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in it. The php.ini also includes</p>
  
  <pre><code>default_charset = "utf-8“
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I really dont know how to proceed and my whole page looks not as nice as it should with those strange question tags...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your Help! 
  Tim</p>