Problems with charset UTF8

PHP
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Hello,
I have a problem with charset UTF8. When I set this charset for my page - I can use only english letters and can’t use cyrillic letters. But in datas from MySQL cyrillic letters display normal on web page. When I change charset to windows-1251 - cyrillic letters display normal on web site but cyrillic letters in data from MySQL don’t display normal.
In data from MySQL charset = UTF8, I can’t use Windows-1251 there.

Here a code, that displays data from MySQL on web page:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
		<title>Шутки</title>
	</head>
	<body>
<p><a href="?addjoke">Press this link and you can add joke</a></p>
		<p> <?php 
                   $jok = "Jokes from database: ";
                   echo $jok; ?>
</p>

		<p>	<?php 
			foreach ($jokes as $joke): ?>
<form action="?deletejoke" method="post">
			<blockquote>
				<p><?php htmlout($joke['text']); ?> 
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $joke['id']; ?>"><input type="submit" value="Delete"> (author: <a href="mailto:<?php htmlout($joke['email']);?>"><?php
htmlout ($joke['name']); ?> </a> )
</p>
			</blockquote> </form>
			<?php endforeach; ?>
		</p>
	</body>
</html>

I will be very thankful for any help.

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Make sure that the encoding you save the file with is also UTF-8.
If it is not you may have problems.
What editor do you use for code? That is where you will set the file encoding.

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Editor that I use is Aptana studio. Files in folder in “notebook” from windows. I just set an expansion when create file - f.e. jokes.html.php.

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If the file was created using Notepad then it is most likely using Windows encoding. Perhaps you can see if Aptana allows you to change the file encoding.

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Thanks for your help, in Aptana file encoding was windows-1251, I set to utf8 and now it works.

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