For some reason, karkozyabs are written to the database instead of Russian words. Why?

Question

PHP

Hello gentlemen!
I have one problem: there was a site that worked fine under Denver, but recently I transferred it to the server and problems began ... The problems are that when I want to add Russian text to the database, it is written as a karkozyab, and also, if you add text through phpmyadmin, it is recorded well, but it is displayed as questions. What to do?

Answer 1

specify utf8-general-ci encoding in table field parameters.

Answer 2

MySQL 5.5 Reference Manual: 10.1.4 Connection Char...

Answer 3

change encodings everywhere in the database:
utf8-general-ci.
In all other respects utf8 without bom