How to configure Doctrine2 to save Cyrillic normally in the database?

Question

MySQL

Problem: I'm saving a Doctrine2 entity in ZendFramework2. If the database is opened through phpMyAdmin, all Russian words are displayed in this form: Although the site normally displays Russian characters. Table cell encoding utf8_unicode_ci.
Help me set up Doctrine2 so that it normally saves Russian words to the database.
UPD: the situation is the same with utf8_general_ci encoding.
UPD2: The problem is not in the server and not in phpMyAdmin, as with other sites that do not use the doctrine, everything is ok.

Answer 1

Found a solution. Maybe someone will need it:
Open the doctrine configuration file: /config/autoload/doctrine.local.php
Add these cells to the doctrine/connection/orm_default/params array:
'charset' => 'utf8',
'driverOptions' => array (
1002 => 'SET NAMES utf8'
),
We'll have to re-save all the values, because these krakozyabry will start showing on the site.
It is desirable to check this setting at the stage of application development.

Answer 2

utf8_general_ci is needed :)

Answer 3

utf8_unicode_ci is not an encoding, but a character mapping table (used to compare strings > <= etc.)
when you connect to the MySQL server you can set the encoding you want to communicate with the server in, doctrine does this itself (utf-8 by by default). and phpmyadmin does not
, you can set the default encoding for client connections in the mysql config:

# CLIENT SECTION
[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8
# SERVER SECTION
[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8

Answer 4

Well, if everything is fine on the site, then what is the problem, what does Doctrine2 have to do with it?
See the phpMyAdmin settings, why it does not give in utf8