title: CKEditor cannot show my country's special characters Æ Ø Å
body: <p>I am using the CKEditor for a better experience when writing articles. The problem is, that it is using some kind of code instead of the true letters which are æ, ø and å.</p>
  
  <p>This is how it translates in my mysql database, when sending data from the CKEditor to my database:</p>
  
  <p>æ = <code>&amp;aelig;</code> </p>
  
  <p>ø = <code>&amp;oslash;</code></p>
  
  <p>å = <code>&amp;aring;</code></p>
  
  <p>How can I change this? The meta is set to utf_8.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the relevant part of the code:</p>
  
  <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true" data-babel="false">
  <div class="snippet-code">
  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;script&gt;
              CKEDITOR.replace( 'article', {
      language: 'da'
  });
  &lt;/script&gt;</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  &lt;script src="https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.7.2/standard/ckeditor.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;textarea name="article" style="height:600px; width:90%;"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;</code></pre>
  </div>
  </div>
  </p>
  
  <p>I hope someone can help me!</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>
  Adding data to the database:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $servername = "";
  $username = "";
  $password = "";
  $dbname = "";
  
  // Create connection
  $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
  // Check connection
  if ($conn-&gt;connect_error) {
      die("Connection failed: " . $conn-&gt;connect_error);
  } 
  
  
  $name = addslashes($_POST[writersName]);
  $uid = addslashes($_POST[writersUid]);
  $article = addslashes($_POST[article]);
  $category = addslashes($_POST[category]);
  
  
  
  $sql = "INSERT INTO artikler (name, uid, article, category)
  VALUES ('".$name."', '".$uid."', '".$article."', '".$category."')";
  
  if ($conn-&gt;query($sql) === TRUE) {
      header("Location: addArticle.php?name=1");
  } else {
      echo "Error: " . $sql . "&lt;br&gt;" . $conn-&gt;error;
  }
  
  $conn-&gt;close();
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>