title: UTF-8 French accented characters issue
body: <p>When i see data as stored on mysql database using phpmyadmin, the characters are stored exactly as é à ç however when i use php to display these data on an html document that has the exact following structure:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I got square instead of accented character, however, i don't have this issue with any accented characters on static content that haven't been loaded from mysql in the same page.</p>
  
  <p>when i see on the source code of the page they seem to be identical! for example:</p>
  
  <p>part of static data on the source code displayed as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>éçà
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>part of mysql origin data:</p>
  
  <pre><code>éçà
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i tried replacing</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>with</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1552" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and as result i got mysql one fixed, static with squares !</p>
  
  <p>any hints?</p>