As far as I know this is a common problem when working with PHPMyAdmin and non-english characters. We have the same issue on a Linux machine, especially irritating not when you just browse through the data, but when you want to create an export: and end up with garbage after import…
As I see, the problem is that MyAdmin fetches the text as UTF-8, then applies some strange function which interprets it as ASCII, so special characters all become (say) two characters, according to the (say) two bytes they are consist of. After this, it serves this as UTF-8 encoded text, so the results of the previous conversion are become legitimate Unicode characters. I would appreciate if someone could point me to a solution on this one. Regards, Ádám
