title: Why are special chars rendered badly in the page?
body: <p>I wrote a PHP script which gets a text input as input from a page. The code is only this, for now:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  include("../Includes/Database.php");
  mysql_select_db('...', $db3);
  $originalText=$_POST['text'];
  echo $originalText;
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The code works fine for normal input (printable ASCII), but not for special characters such as <code>é</code>, <code>д</code>, <code>φ</code>... For example, inputting <code>Stack Overflow</code> outputs <code>Stack Overflow</code>, while <code>Δημοκρατία</code> returns <code>Î”Î·Î¼Î¿ÎºÏÎ±Ï„Î¯Î±</code>. It doesn't work for Extended ASCII, either: <code>même</code> returns <code>mÃªme</code>.<br>
  I don't need full Unicode support [although it'd be good], just extended ASCII, as the input text will be in Italian (which uses <code>à</code>, <code>è</code>, <code>é</code>, <code>ì</code>, <code>ò</code> and <code>ù</code>).</p>
  
  <p>[Exactly, <code>Δημοκρατία</code> uses Unicode characters, as it is Greek for "democracy"; <code>même</code> uses Extended ASCII, as it is French for "same" (<code>ê</code> is Extended ASCII)]</p>