Encoding issue with Magento 2

Question

I am using symbols like these in My Magento pages:

✓ ☳ ▣

For some reason now the symbols are being changed by Magento to these weird characters:

ÃÂãÃÂÃÂÃÂàâÂÂ

I have read other threads and they indicate it's an encoding issue. Can anyone help with this?

Answer 1

Try to set UTF-8 encoding to your config.