Special characters not showing up Correctly in TEXTBOX

Question

I am using PHP + HTML + smarty (as a template).

There is some dynamic content coming from user's input.

When user enters some special characters for example —.'@• it's been saved properly in variable.

But when I try to show that same content of special character in textbox (using smarty template) it shows something like this: . @

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> is already included in the Header`.

I already referred this: utf-8 special characters not displaying

None of its solution worked for me.

Answer 1

Make sure that everything that deals with the string supports UTF-8. Mainly:

• If you store the string in a table before displaying it, check that it is UTF-8 encoded (eg. for MySQL, have DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 when you create the table).

• Make sure that the view files are saved as UTF-8. In your text editor, you can normally choose the encoding. Or choose "Save as..." and choose the encoding there.

• I'm not familiar with Smarty but make sure it's not converting the string to some non-UTF8 encoding.