title: Character Encoding utf8 to latin1, explain these 2 characters
body: <p>I have a database which uses latin-1 and a PHP application which is utf-8.</p>
  
  <p>I have strings in the database like this:</p>
  
  <p>'<strong>SociÃ©tÃ©</strong>'  which should be Société</p>
  
  <p>'<strong>â‚¬1bn</strong>' which should be €2bn.</p>
  
  <p>When I print the faulty characters to screen with PHP's <strong>ord()</strong>, from the returning data in the db, it prints 195 and 226.</p>
  
  <p>Could somebody explain why this is happening (why saving like this and why characters being read as they are) and if I can reverse it.</p>