Magento remove diamond question mark [duplicate]

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PHP output showing little black diamonds with a question mark (21 answers)

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I have a diamond question mark on my page which gets php code from the mysql database.

How do i get rid of this?

Answer 1

Use SET NAMES uft8 as SQL query

And this <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> on your html page

Depending on the charset that you are using.