I’m having a small issue, I am storing Georgian Unicode text into my database, and it appears in phpmyadmin as:
ნáƒáƒ’ვის ურნáƒ?
Character set for the database is utf8_general_ci. When I retrieve the text in my php script it appears correctly.
Try this at the start of your code:
It will tell PHP to use Unicode to communicate with the database engine.