title: Wordpress UTF-8 encoding issue. Help implementing possible solution?
body: <p>My wordpress blog shows Â characters in place of special characters/symbols such as £.</p>
  
  <p>The problem occurs upon saving the post to the database, and viewing it on the live page. Viewing it on the edit page does not show Â.</p>
  
  <p>I've been through many tutorials and suggestions (fresh WP install, converting database to UTF-8, making sure all pages are UTF-8 etc) and nothing has worked - but I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/8927808/837780">this</a> answer on Stackoverflow that may help.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is I can't figure out where to implement the code in Wordpress. I'm using the Genesis framework with a theme called Agency.</p>
  
  <p>I would comment on that post to find the answer, but I'm a new user and don't have enough reputation to do so.</p>
  
  <p>The code I need to use is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mb_convert_encoding($excerpt_text, "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I can't find where the post content is even generated or printed on the page, in order to add this code.</p>