UTF-8: showing correctly in database, however not in HTML despite utf-8 charset

Question

I use MySQL 5.1 and loaded from a UTF-8 decoded txt-file about 2.7 mil lines into a table which itself is declared as utf8_unicode_ci and as well all char-field

Answer 1

Note: MySQL's utf8 charset is limited, it only supports Unicode characters in the BMP that take up no more than three bytes. You should be using utf8mb4 instead.

• Make sure you send the SET NAMES utf8 SET NAMES utf8mb4 command to MySQL after connecting, before running any MySQL queries.
• Make sure your page is actually rendered as utf-8 (if there's an HTTP header Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1, browsers disagree about which should win).
• Read this article: Handling Unicode Front To Back In A Web App (but remember to replace utf8 with utf8mb4 where MySQL is concerned).

If phpMyAdmin displays your entered data as correct Unicode text, then my bet is that you are not doing SET NAMES utf8 after connecting.