My mysql database has a field that shows perfectly when viewed in myphpadmin. However, when I display it via my php web page certain characters (mostly apostrophes) display as black diamonds with question marks. The database is in utf8_general_ci.

The fact that it displays properly in PHPmyadmin suggests it is something in my web page or that they have a good trick for avoiding this problem.

Does anyone know what I can do?

More than likely it's an issue with your PAGE charset being incorrect/not matching the data charset.

This page: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=621254 offers some helpful information.

Maybe use HTML codes for special characters ... I had this problem moving content from a MySQL to Postgresql db.