XML : RSS Feed getting data from mysql database and outputting £ - How do I display £ instead of £ even though my feed is calling UTF8? [duplicate]

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This is the code it runs as I want it to but the output 'name' from the table in database always shows i.e. £101 instead of £101 what do I need to correct in the code shown?

  <?php      header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');     $host = "host";   $user = "testing";   $pass = "abcdefghikans";   $database = "test";     $linkID = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Could not connect to host.");   mysql_select_db($database, $linkID) or die("Could not find database.");     $rss = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';   $rss .= '<rss version="2.0">';   $rss .= '<channel>';   $rss .= '<title>Competition Feed</title>';     $numStart = gmmktime(0, 0, 0, date('m')-1, 1, date('Y'));  $numEnd = gmmktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), 1, date('Y'))-1;   $sql = "SELECT name FROM table WHERE active = '0' AND closedate >= '$numStart' AND closedate <= '$numEnd' AND value >=100 ORDER BY value DESC";   $query = mysql_query($sql, $linkID) or die("Data not found.");   while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {      $rss .= '<item>';  $rss .= '<description>'.$row['name'].'</description>';  $rss .= '</item>';    }     $rss .= '</channel>';   $rss .= '</rss>';     echo $rss;   ?>