title: Problems displaying French accented characters in UTF-8
body: <p>I'm working on a French language site built in CakePHP.  I have tried multiple functions to try and convert the text into UTF-8 and display properly, but have had no success so far - any accented letters are displaying as a black diamond with a question mark.  They do display correctly when I change the char set in the browser to ISO-8859-1, but I'd like to make the while site UTF-8 compliant.  I have used:</p>
  
  <p>html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
  htmlspecialchars($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
  utf8_encode</p>
  
  <p>but no cigar.  The page is set to UTF-8 in the header</p>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>And the MySQL database is using UTF-8 too.  How can I get the accented characters to display properly in UTF-8?</p>