- You need to save the page with
UTF-8 without BOM
encoding. -
Add this header on top of your script:
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");
[EDIT]: How to Save Files as UTF-8 without BOM :
On OP request, here’s how you can do on Windows:
- Download Notepad++. It is an awesome text-editor that you should be using.
- Install it.
- open the PHP script in Notepad++ that contains this code. The page where you are doing all the coding. Yes, that file on your computer.
- In Notepad++, from the Encoding menu at the top, select “Convert to UTF-8 without BOM”.
- Save the file.
- Upload to your webserver by FTP or whatever you use.
- Now, run that script.