SSI and non standard characters

[‡Ü߇_H@WK]

SMF Version: SMF 1.1.2
Alright guys, got what i hope isn't too much of a problem here, but it has been bugging the crap out of me for weeks....

alright, i am using SSI to merge my SMF forum and my php website

this is a gaming clan website and we use alt codes in our clan tags, they are actually:
‡Ü߇_

now as this may show up fine inside the actual forum, when it comes to ssi, it gets crazy, it ends up displaying:
‡Ü߇_ instead, where ever the clan tags should appear

now, i have looked at the source code and have found that the characters are written exactly as ‡Ü߇_, but, they are not showing up as such, is there any way to make them show up correctly? this may require modding ssi.php and i would not mind doing this

the site is
www.ubclan.org/site/index.php

you can see right away, look at the shoutbox 

anyways, any help would be greatly appreciated

-H@WK  

[SleePy]

did you try to turn them into their HTML equivalent? Are you using UTF-8?

[‡Ü߇_H@WK]

Are you using UTF-8?

would having utf on make a difference? I am pretty sure that it is, how can i be sure?

[SleePy]

You could setup a test forum and convert your test forum to UTF-8 and see if it work.

Do the pages you have them in have the same character set as your forums?

[‡Ü߇_H@WK]

Do the pages you have them in have the same character set as your forums?

how would i set this up?

lol sorry, im a bit new to all of this

[‡Ü߇_H@WK]

k, guys, ended up that the charset on the website, wasnt set to utf-8, thx for your support, it works now