LAMP using UTF 8

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• Convert MySQL
• Convert project(php files for example)

useful for check mysql charset connect
echo(mysql_client_encoding($this->sDBLink); if other - set: mysql_set_charset("utf8", $this->sDBLink);

to my.cnf [client] default-character-set=utf8 [mysql] default-character-set=utf8 [mysqld] collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci init-connect='SET NAMES utf8' character-set-server = utf8