How important is the charset setting?

Working on a site with strict DTD and no charset setting.

Trying to display the left and right square brackets. None of the formatting options work. Site works fine but I think I need more than that.

The database uses utf8 but doesn't want to display [ and ] via [ and ]

It's important I often had to work on sites which were not utf-8 and had my problems...
When the content in the Database is utf-8 encoded, you must also connect to the Database with utf-8.
Search for: "SET NAMES utf8".
Then also the html/php files itself should be utf-8 encoded as well as the html charset.

First, try adding this in the head section:



If that doesn't do it, make sure the DB itself and all the actual data in the DB (all tables and fields) is also in UTF-8, not just the MySQL setting.

If it's not, see this: http://bobsguides.com/convert-db-utf8.html

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