title: German Umlauts in strftime date-formatting - correct utf-8 encoding?
body: <p>I'm creating a german date format like this with PHP <code>14. März 2012</code> (which is March 14th 2012).</p>
  
  <p>I'm working with <code>$date[0]</code> that contains a unix timestamp and I convert it like this to a readable german date.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$date_day_month = strftime('%d. %B', $date[0]);
  $date_year = strftime('%Y', $date[0]);
  
  echo $date_day_month . $date_year;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However I somehow get a question mark for the Umlaut <code>ä</code> like this </p>
  
  <p><code>14. M�rz 2012</code></p>
  
  <p>Why is that and how can I fix this? Thanks in advance.</p>