title: How to extract a UTF-8 string (In Arabic) from a MySQL DB and echo to screen using PHP
body: <p>I have a MySQL db, i've set collation = utf8_unicode_ci.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to fetch the value through PHP but i'm getting "???" instead of the actual string.</p>
  
  <p>I have read about this subject and tried using mb_convert_encoding but it didn't work, what am I missing?</p>
  
  <p>Can someone please post a code snippet that actually pulls a value from a DB and echos the string to the screen?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,</p>