It does not correctly display Russian text from the database, what should I do?

Question

PHP

It does not correctly display Russian text from the database, what should I do? Base and the site itself on utf 8

Answer 1

Try to specify the encoding when connecting to the database.
mysqli_set_charset ( $link , 'utf8' );

Answer 2

You can replace the encoding for the database in the php.ini file so as
not to change it by force in each file (if there are a lot of them)