Question : 'Â' character while saving in mysql

i had an application in php with mysql, which read some data from a XML file and insert into database table.

while inserting into table, the field 'salary', some times inserted a bad character 'Â'.
But in the XML file there is no bad character, remaining data inserted are correctly.

eg. £19,621 in salary field.

note: MySQL connection collation is utf8_general_ci

can please help us.

Answer : 'Â' character while saving in mysql

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/Q_26317683.html

Hope this helps