Yeah, i had a similar problem, i dont know if its the same, but i found thatEven better, use header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8') at the beginning of your PHP page.
adding
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
in the head of the html output fixed it
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