title: Saving special characters to MySQL database
body: <p>I am currently having an issue saving special characters (® &amp; ©) to a mySQL database.</p>
  
  <p>On a local stack (local to my development machine) the operation runs smoothly and what is entered in the front-end gets saved as what is expected.</p>
  
  <p>With the same front-end code on the centralised server when saving to the DB the character is proceeded with other characters it is saved as Â®.
  This isn't an issue when viewing the record on the front-end as it reverses what it does and displays correctly.</p>
  
  <p>The issue comes from another separate system which utilises the same database and doesn't do any alteration so appears as the Â® instead of simply ®.</p>
  
  <p>The reason for my confusion is that it seems to work as required on my local stack but not on the centralised server.</p>
  
  <p>I am looking for ideas as to what to look for which might be causing this on the servers configuration compared to my local.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance
  Mark</p>