MySQL php and CHARACTER SET error

Still very new to php and MySQL, in fact this is my first
site using it.
I have got an issue with displaying characters, namely the
£ sing, all I get is an ? displayed.
I have been told to use, utf8 in the database field but this
has not helped cure the problem.
I'm building the site in DW CS3 and it's all running off my
Mac using OS X 10.5.1 and the built in php client.
Could anyone show me the right way to go?

Ok I think my IQ is falling me, it's been a long week.
<?php header('Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8');
?>
Is the first line of code on the test page I have got
running. I have no error but I also have no £ sings.
Here is the live page:
http://www.epos-acoustics.com/test.php
The page code:
<?php header('Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8');
?>
<?php require_once('Connections/epos.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType,
$theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
$theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue)
: $theValue;
$theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ?
mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) :
mysql_escape_string($theValue);
switch ($theType) {
case "text":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" :
"NULL";
break;
case "long":
case "int":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
break;
case "double":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) .
"'" : "NULL";
break;
case "date":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" :
"NULL";
break;
case "defined":
$theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue :
$theNotDefinedValue;
break;
return $theValue;
mysql_select_db($database_epos, $epos);
$query_rs01 = "SELECT * FROM epos_shop ORDER BY my_shop_id
ASC";
$rs01 = mysql_query($query_rs01, $epos) or
die(mysql_error());
$row_rs01 = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs01);
$totalRows_rs01 = mysql_num_rows($rs01);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8" />
<title>shop text test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php do { ?>
<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="2"
cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td width="92">Product name: </td>
<td width="494" colspan="2"><?php echo
$row_rs01['my_shop_product']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Description:</td>
<td colspan="2"><?php echo
$row_rs01['my_shop_text']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Price:</td>
<td colspan="2"><?php echo
$row_rs01['my_shop_price']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="30" colspan="3"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php } while ($row_rs01 = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs01));
?></body>
</html>
<?php
mysql_free_result($rs01);
?>
Am I missing the point or do I have something wrong with the
table or field?

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