title: html page displays cyrillic symbols OK, if contains charset=windows-1251, but not utf-8
body: <p>Well... Html pages and mysql tables contain cyrillic text.
  For displaying the cyrillic text Барысаў2000 I use</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>on the web-page.
  For storing that word in MySQL table, <strong>utf8_unicode_ci</strong> collation is used (I've read some topics and, as I understand, utf8_unicode_ci is recommended for storing cyrillic symbols).
  But, what I actually see using phpMyAdmin, the text Барысаў2000 is stored as Áàðûñà¢2000 in the db, and that's the problem I wish to solve. (POST method + escaping dangerous symbols are used to save user's text into db).
  But, when you SELECT that data and display it on the html page, it looks fine: Барысаў2000. </p>
  
  <p>The problem how phpMyAdmin displays it for me didn't bother me until today. Today I've tried to solve it.</p>
  
  <p>I guessed I have to use utf-8 everywhere, so I switched from</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now my pages display questions instead of cyrillic symbols and the question with displayng cyrillic text in my db was not solved.
  Who can tell me what's the problem?
  P.S. I can read serbian and belarusian (cyrillic languages) web-sites without any problems and can type cyrillic texts on my localhost.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>