UTF-8 Encoding still wrong output

Question

I have an encoding problem. The table uses `utf8_general_ci`, the php header `header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");` and in the html the meta tag `<meta charset="utf-8">` is set. BOM is set right. The german chars are displayed right in phpmyadmin. But when I output it the encoding results: Sask��� Any other idea what I can do?

Accepted Answer

This solves the problem

```
mysqli_query($link, "SET NAMES 'utf8'"); 
mysqli_query($link, "SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'"); 
```

UTF-8 Encoding still wrong output

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