Charset issue when reading notes from evernote

[madasahatta]

I'm using wymeditor as a frontend editor for my Evernote notes. I'm loading my notes from their database, and am getting content that looks like this:

If you’re like me, you like registering domains. It’s exciting. But what’s not exciting is watching your hosting company or domain registrar turn your name into an ad-farm while you’re getting ready to launch your next WordPress blog.

I know, the content has UTF-8 encoding on the evernote side and I have set apache and php to use utf-8 by default, according to the instructions here:
http://www.itnewb.com/v/UTF-8-Enabled-A ... JavaScript.

The only thing, I didn't do was use the utf-8 validation script at the end of that article, as I don't see a reason to use it, as the content that I am retrieving from evernote must already be valid utf-8?

Would really appreciate help on this, as I am very close to getting this tool working.

thanks