is it utf-8 problems? php mysql

I am getting stuck with this, previously i am using php 5 and now i came up with php 7,

the problem is when i am trying to echo value from database it returns weird special character and where in my previous web it returns normal. Is it utf-8 problem? i tried meta tag utf-8, and change collation sql into utf8_unicode_ci, but somehow it doesn't help at all...

it returns like this

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what i want to return

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via Chebli Mohamed