title: Storing swedish characters in mysql database
body: <p>I'm having problems storing Swedish characters in my MySQL database. I want to store them in my table called <code>users</code> with the collation utf8-bin. Even though I'm using utf8, the characters <code>å ä ö</code> gets stored as <code>Ã¥ Ã¤ Ã¶</code> and I don't know why. Retrieving the data and echoing it gives me the same output, with the weird characters instead of <code>å ä ö</code>. Any help is appreciated.</p>