title: Spanish Characters not Displaying Correctly
body: <p>I am getting the lovely � box where spanish characters should be displayed. (ie: ñ, á, etc).  I have already made sure that my meta http-equiv is set to utf-8:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have also made sure that the page header is set for utf-8 also:</p>
  
  <pre><code>header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the beginning stages of my code thus far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
      setlocale(LC_ALL, 'es_MX');
      $datetime = strtotime($event['datetime']);
      $date = date("M j, Y", $datetime);
      $day = strftime("%A", $datetime);
      $time = date("g:i", $datetime);
  ?&gt;
      &lt;a href="/&lt;?= $event['request'] ?&gt;.html"&gt;&lt;?= $day ?&gt; &lt;?= $time ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The above code is in a where statement.  I have read that switching the collation in the database can also be a factor but I already have it set to UTF-8 General ci.  Plus, the only thing that is in that column is DateTime anyway which is numbers and cannot be collated anyway.</p>
  
  <p>result: s�bado 8:00 </p>
  
  <p>Any help is greatly appreciated as always.</p>