Hieroglyphs instead of Cyrillic when writing and displaying from the database. How to fix?

Question

PHP

The database and all fields of all tables are encoded utf8_general_ci. When writing data in Cyrillic and outputting the following: .
All .php files are utf8 encoded (no BOM).
My database connection code is as follows:

$load = mysqli_connect(...);
$load->set_charset("utf8"); //Также пробовал mysqli_query($load, "SET NAMES UTF8");

How to fix it please tell me!

Answer 1

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