Unicode Problem

[Peter Lum]

Hi
 
I set up Kannel to to a http get whenever a sms arrives at the smsbox.
However, if I sent unicode characters from my phone, what I eventually store
in my MySQL is junk.
 
Is the line below ok to retrieve the message:
 
  $rcvMessage = $_GET["text"];
  $SQL_rcvMessage = iconv("windows-1252", "utf-8", urldecode ($rcvMessage)
);
 
whenI store into the database, I use values like
 
_utf8'" . addslashes($SQL_rcvMessage) . "'
 
What part did I do wrong here?
 
PS: I also tried 
$SQL_rcvMessage = iconv("ucs-2", "utf-8", urldecode ($rcvMessage) );