title: accent characters not showing properly in browser
body: <p>In districts table 
  I have a row as </p>
  
  <pre><code>district_id   district_name   country_id
  15            Šahty           16       
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>While selecting from php and displaying in browser,it shows like this :�ahty </p>
  
  <p>I am using mssql 2005 with collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is something like this 
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8694815/removing-accent-and-special-characters">removing accent and special characters</a>
  but i need the solution in php.</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE(?):
  There is no support for UTF-8 in sqlserver.
  <a href="https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/7346/mssql-2005-2008-utf-8-collation-charset">https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/7346/mssql-2005-2008-utf-8-collation-charset</a></p>