Strange Characters in database text: Ã, Ã, ¢, â‚ €,

If the charset of the tables is the same as it’s content try to use mysql_set_charset('UTF8', $link_identifier). Note that MySQL uses UTF8 to specify the UTF-8 encoding instead of UTF-8 which is more common.

Check my other answer on a similar question too.

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