title: How do I show German characters rendered correctly?
body: <p>I have an issue that is elsewhere on this website, though I don't see a way to add a comment to it, without being asked to "answer" it.</p>
  
  <p>My website was originally created NOT using UTF-8.  We are updating them all now.  But late, I know.</p>
  
  <p>But now the German site we built, has this issue of the German characters showing the black diamonds.</p>
  
  <p>We cannot add the longer 'code' for each character as they are words typed into products and menu links.  So I assume we have to update our database.  I have done this setting it to "utf8_germany2_ci".</p>
  
  <p>I use notepad or notepad2 for writing code. It says "ANSI" in the baseline of the window.</p>
  
  <p>I've read that using "cp850" might be better, but I've not heard of it before now.</p>
  
  <p>Happy to supply screenshots and make any alterations.</p>