title: UTF-8 GET request parameters in php
body: <p>I've got the following URL :</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://my-server/method.php?search_string=%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA" rel="nofollow">http://my-server/method.php?search_string=%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA</a> ( url-encoded word - "Парик" ).</p>
  
  <p>And i've for the following script :</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
      include 'BL_DBHelper.php';
  
      header( "&lt;meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" /&gt;") ;
  
      $searchString = $_GET['search_string'];
  
      echo $searchString ; 
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Supprisingly, server output is : "
  ÐÐ°ÑÐ¸Ðº". What encoding problems do i have? I also cannot send this variable to DB-queues procedures, it's in wrong encoding also(</p>