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If you are using PDO (PHP Data Objects) and you’re having problems with utf-8, try to add PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND option inside PDO definition like I wrote below.

$db = new PDO(
    'mysql:host=example.com;dbname=dbName',
    "username",
    "password",
    array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8"));