title: PHP character encoding problems
body: <p>I need help with a character encoding problem that I want to sort once and for all. Here is an example of some content which I pull from a XML feed, insert into my database and then pull out. </p>
  
  <p>As you can not see, a lot of special html characters get corrupted/broken. </p>
  
  <p>How can I once and for all stop this? How am I able to support all types of characters, etc.?</p>
  
  <p>I've tried literally every piece of coding I can find, it sometimes corrects it for most but still others are corrupted.</p>