Krakozyabry when inserting into the database?

Question

MySQL

Hello, I began to notice that sometimes krakozyabrs get into the database, although the input is plain text. For example, this sentence "We are proud to show you first real-life pictures of already produced Behemoth „Live at the BBC” limited vinyl/CD EP" was added to the database like this "We are proud to show you first real-life pictures" of already produced Behemoth "Live at the BBC" limited vinyl/CD EP". Immediately I tried to manually insert this line into the database and it was inserted correctly, without bugs. What can be wrong? Base in utf_8_general_ci, on the laravel client, writing to the base through its eloquent orm

Answer 1

most likely the connection goes through PDO, and there you also need to specify the encoding when connecting.
dig in the direction of the configs, maybe there is a way to set the encoding.

Answer 2

Try utf8_unicode_ci