title: Pound Signs appearing as Question Marks PHP
body: <p>I'm having problems with Pound Signs appearing as Question Marks within a diamond in my PHP script which pulls data from a MySQL Database.</p>
  
  <p>I have looked through other Stack Overflow answers and I think checked everything.</p>
  
  <p>I have checked in php.ini that I have default_charset = "utf-8", I have also added AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and to /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/charset.conf</p>
  
  <p>I have also added this to the top of the web page:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;HEAD&gt;
  &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;ZXDB&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/HEAD&gt;
  &lt;BODY&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Finally I ran sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart to restart the server.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with Apache and PHP7.</p>
  
  <p>What am I missing?</p>
  
  <p>The page is available here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/originalprices.php
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance</p>