title: PHP MySQL Chinese UTF-8 Issue
body: <p>I have a MySQL table &amp; fields that are all set to UTF-8. The thing is, a previous PHP script, which was in charge of the database writing, was using some other encoding, not sure whether it is in the script itself, the MySQL connection or somewhere else. The result is that although the table &amp; fields are set to UTF-8, we see the wrong chars instead of Chinese.
  It looks like that: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CAtqo.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Now, the previous scripts (which were in charge of the writing and corrupted the data) can read it well for some reason, but my new script which all encoded in UTF-8, shows chars like ½©. How can that be fixed?</p>