white question marks within black diamond

Question

As mentioned in the title i am dealing with the following problem, i see a special character in my magento store. The special character appears as white question mark within a black diamond. Is there a way to make that special character disappear??

Answer 1

Use SET NAMES uft8 as SQL query

Add this in header of your page

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Depending on the charset that you are using.

Answer 2

Most probably there is something wrong with your translation files.
The CSV files for your language are (were not) saved in the UTF8 format, so all special chars like è, í, É, Í, ó, and so on are not saved properly.