php - charset and issue of special chars -

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i having issues charset , special chars in page : http://goo.gl/uggxwt have added in header section charset code :

<html lang="fr"> <meta charset="utf-8">

i tried add in body section

header('content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

nothing changed still same problem , went htaccess file added

adddefaultcharset utf-8

but didn't solved issue can solution situation

add well

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-8">

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