UTF-8 not working in HTML forms

Question

I have this form:

<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" accept-charset="UTF-8">

But when I submit an é character, it turns it into é.

Why doesn't this work? Yes, the MySQL database has all the character-sets set up correctly. (Database, tables.) If I manually put it in the database with Navicat it shows up fine on the webpage.

Also, I have tried the metatag, setting the content-type header, without success.

Answer 1

Ensure you have set your connection collation to utf8:

SET NAMES utf8

Answer 2

In your HTML, add this meta tag:

 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

Also add this PHP header at top of the script:

 header("Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8");

[EDIT]:

One more tip is to save the file as UTF-8 without BOM encoding. You can use Notepad++ or any decent editor to do that.