I am getting some weird characters in the output from my script. It is a light CMS that enters content in the database. When I output from the database, I get characters like  right after all periods.

What causes this? My database collation is latin1_swedish_ci and my template document sets the page as UTF8 ( browser is also showing UTF8 ).

Is this an encoding issue? I thought for a second maybe I should change the collation to UTF8, but there's so many choices in the database for that. Then I checked out UTF8_encode PHP function, but wasn't sure if I should all data entered into the database through this.

Sounds like it to me, the data within the DB wont be utf therefore its not going to make a difference if you send 'utf8' headers.

You will have to change the DB encoding, a small article i found on the matter (assuming you use mysql)
http://www.khelll.com/blog/mysql/cha...latin-to-utf8/

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mysql> SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`clue` > 0;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

Thanks, this seemed to solve the problem. Figured this was what was causing it.