Wordpress- Why do symbols like apostrophes and hyphens get replaced with black diamonds on my website?

Question:

Why do symbols like apostrophes and hyphens get replaced with black diamonds on my website?

Answer:

OK, I fixed it.

I added this to my wp-config.php:

?

1 2	define( 'DB_CHARSET', 'utf8' ); define( 'DB_COLLATE', 'utf8_general_ci' );

Worked for me!