title: Laravel localization to German and special letters
body: <p>I have a problem with some German's special letters (ö, ü...) in my Laravel application. </p>
  
  <p>My encoding is set to UTF-8.</p>
  
  <p>Everything works fine with the content from the database (where is <code>utf8_general_ci</code>). When I hardcode some text to Blade view files, that's fine, too. But, I'm using localization files (<code>/app/lang/de/myFile.php</code>) with an associative array. </p>
  
  <p>German characters from that array are displayed as � � �. What is strange, when I <code>var_dump(trans('myFile.key'))</code> in Blade, special characters works, but when <code>echo trans('myFile.key')</code>, there are that question marks. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>