title: How to retrieve currency symbol from database using php?
body: <p>I have a customer database and i m retrieving customer's company name from one of the tables (cache_cust).I am saving 'company_name' in this format e.g Mr €2 , Mr €1 , £ land etc.
  These currency symbols are saving correctly in the database.BUT when i try to retrieve the 'company_name' values they show me characters like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>For example : for "  Mr €2 " ,it shows " Mr â‚¬2   "  .
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can i display my data on the php page as it is saved in the database?How can i avoid these kind of symbols appearing on my web page?PLEASE note that these values are coming from the database.I have tried htmlspecialcharacters and htmlentities but they didn't work.Please help.Thanks     </p>
  
  <p>AN UPDATE:
  When i try to post the 'company_name' text box value to next page and try to retrieve it using print($_POST['company_name]); ,it Still DOESN'T display the symbols and doesn't include special characters.</p>