There are lots of 'environments' that you could check for UTF8-compatibility:
Some are trivial, others not so much :)

Does it work when you are inserting the data using phpmyadmin?
What about other mysql-clients...what do they show when retrieving the data?
What is shown when you query the data from the database using a perl script and dump it to (your UTF8-supporting) console?
Maybe phpmyadmin is borked.
Maybe your connection to mysql is not set to UTF8, which causes the mysql-driver to convert your UTF8-data to latin1 before it ends up in the database.
Maybe it's something else entirely.

In reply to Re: UTF8 driving me up the wall again! by Neighbour
in thread UTF8 driving me up the wall again! by ultranerds

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