中国的Chars显示不正常

Question

I have utf8 encoded data in Database.

The data is displayed properly in PHPMYADMIN on both local and remote databases.

I am using codeigniter and twitter bootstrap to display this Data.

The data gets displayed properly on my Local Windows computer But the same

is replaced with ���� chars on remote website.

What am i doing wrong ?

Update:

The chars are displayed properly on removing htmlentities() function from the data but what if the data contains html tags that mess up the webpage

Answer 1

Do you have this in the html head:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

If not add it.