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

I had this problem recently (I hope its the same problem you are having), I tried many ways but at the end what worked was really simple.

Convert your dumped SQL file to UTF-8 format and then import it.

BW: I used Notepad++ for the conversion.