PHP character problem

I have a problem with characters in PHP, I call date from MySQL that holds some special characters for example: (œÏïÎîÔôËÊÉÈëêéèÀàçÍíóÓéèÉÈÚúáàÁÀãñÑÖöÜüßÉ) the result 开发者_StackOverflowgive me � how can I fix that ?

That character means you're outputting ANSI characters while telling the browser it is UTF-8. You should correct your HTML ContentType meta and/or content-encoding header, or convert the characters to UTF8 using utf8encode first.