Title encoding to display correctly foreign characters In my html.tpl.php file in the &lt;head&gt; tag
I display the page title as follows:

&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php print $head_title; ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;

This displays the foreign characters not correctly when watching the pages
in the browser.

I tried to add the
&lt;meta charset="utf-8" /&gt; but it didn't help.

Caches were cleared.

What else could you change so that the foreign characters are encoded correctly?
Instead of trying this.

&lt;?php print $head_title; ?&gt;


try this and check.

&lt;?php print html_entity_decode($head_title); ?&gt;