title: Showing � instead of £
body: <p>the symbol � is showing instead of £ when pulling data from the mysql database</p>
  
  <p>the field in question its collated to utf8_general_ci</p>
  
  <p>I also have the <code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt;</code> on the head tag of the page</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas please?</p>