title: Strange characters and encoding while using twitter API
body: <p>I begun developing my own SIMPLE twitter client in my server (to bypass twitter.com blocking rule stablished by some dumbass at govt. office)</p>
  
  <p>Please check this image so you can see <strong>the accented characters converted into weird symbol</strong>:  </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/0l7br.jpg" alt="Screenshot of my app"></p>
  
  <p>It is being developed with this class <a href="http://classes.verkoyen.eu/twitter/" rel="noreferrer">Twitter PHP class by Tijs Verkoyen</a></p>
  
  <p>This is my heading code, which is utf-8. <strong>Can anyone point me to a fix?</strong></p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;<br>
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;<br>
  &lt;head&gt;<br>
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;<br>
  &lt;script src="js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</code></p>