Why ????? is displayed instead of non-english characters?

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Published on 2012-11-14T22:37:41Z Indexed on 2012/11/14 23:00 UTC
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character-encoding

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non-english

I first created a simple HTML page that uses UTF-8 as its character encoding.

Then I moved the HTML content as a view in codeigniter and it was still ok (I had used non-english characters that were ok as always)

I added a simple dynamic functionality (there is a contact us form in it that emails users feedback to site admin).

Please note that the characters were ok at localhost (which is a LAMP server running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

Strange is that when I uploaded the app to server, all persian characters are shown as ???? (For example ??? (which means Name) is shown ??? and so so...)

I have not even connected to mysql or any other DBMS.

It's the only page in the website (it's more an under construction page) and nothing else has been used in it.

Maybe I should state that I have also used session library to thank the user after his feedback was sent to admins, nothing else.

I have really no idea about the problem.

UPDATE

Now I can see that the problem is only with cPanel. On Directadmin I can see that everything is normal.
Both Chromium and Firefox DO use UTF-8 as page's character encoding.
URL is http://WEBSITE.COM/dmf/dynamic/ (dmf is the abbreviation of the project name!). There is nothing non-english in the URL.

The page's code is as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>??? ???????</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url('template/css/style.css'); ?>" />
<!-- 1. jquery library -->
<script
  src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js">
</script>

<!-- 2. flowplayer -->
<script src="http://releases.flowplayer.org/5.1.1/flowplayer.min.js"></script>

<!-- 3. skin -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://releases.flowplayer.org/5.1.1/skin/minimalist.css" />
</head>
<body>
    <div id="wrapper">
        <header>
            <h1>??? ???????</h1>
        </header>
        <section id="box-container">
            <?php
                echo form_open('contact', "id='contact-us'");
                echo form_fieldset('???? ?? ??');
                if ($this->session->userdata('mailsent'))
                {
                    echo '<div>??????? ???? ??? ????? ??</div>';
                    $this->session->sess_destroy();
                }
                echo '<input tabindex="1" id="name-in" value="???" type="text" name="name"/>
                    <input tabindex="2" id="mail-in" value="?????" type="email" name="email"/>
                    <textarea tabindex="3" id="content-in" name="message">???????</textarea>
                    <input tabindex="4" id="submit" type="submit" value="?????" />';
                echo '<div class="clear"></div>';
                echo form_fieldset_close();
                echo form_close();
            ?>

            <div id="sms-comp">
                <h2>?????? ??????</h2>
                <p>
                    <span id="comp-title">?? ??? ????</span>
???? ??????? ???? ???
                </p>
            </div>

            <div id="last-program">
                <h2>?????? ????? ??????</h2>
                <div class="flowplayer">
                    <video id="my_video_1" width="212" height="126"
                        poster="<?php echo base_url('template/images/img.jpg'); ?>" controls="controls"
                        src="http://archive.org/download/Pbtestfilemp4videotestmp4/video_test.ogv" type='video/mp4'>
                    </video>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="clear"></div>
        </section>
    </div>
    <footer>
        ????? ? ????? : <a href="http://powered-by.com/" target="_blank">????? ???</a>
    </footer>
</body>
</html>

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