Issue with utf-8 encoding using PHP + MySQL

Question

I moved data from MySQL 4 (they were originally set to latin2 encoding) to MySQL 5 and set encoding to utf-8. It

Answer 1

When you show UTF8 characters on a website but tell the browser to interpret them as Latin1 (or Latin2) you see this kind of gibberish: ß

When you show Latin1 (or Latin2) characters on a website, but tell the browser to interpret them as UTF8, you see question marks.

So my guess is that you switched everything to UTF8 (I mean, you told the DB Engine, the web server and the browser you would be using UTF8), but you didn't actually convert the strings to UTF8.

Do what @Darkerstar said. Convert your dump to UTF8 (Notepad++ can do that easily) and import it again.