PHP - UTF8 en la conexión

<?php

	$host = 'localhost';

	$username = 'root';

	$password = '2222';

	$dbname = 'base';

	$con = mysqli_connect($host, $username, $password, $dbname);

?>

if (!mysqli_set_charset($link, "utf8")) {

    printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", mysqli_error($link));

    exit();

} else {

    printf("Current character set: %s\n", mysqli_character_set_name($link));

}