how to echo special characters like åäö with utf8 [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: UTF-8 all the way through 开发者_Go百科 (13 answers) Closed 9 years ago.

specialcharacters åöö in the database cant be shown when i retrieve the rows and echo it.

what can i do to have them shown propertly?

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There are a number of character encoding options that need to be set:

• Is the database column using UTF8?
• Is the database connection using UTF8?
• Is the HTML output setting a UTF8 character set?

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Make sure your database tables, connection and output document type are UTF-8. Good reading on the issue: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html