Foreign characters - saving to database?

Question

I have words like this in my fields:

Überblick

When I save them to the database it becomes:

Ãberblick

I have tried:

htmlspecialchars
$db->escape
mysql_real_escape_string

What is the correct solution to saving this to a mysql database using PHP?

Answer 1

Do the following, after initialising the connection: mysqli_set_charset("utf8");