MySQL Forums :: Python :: Utf8 charset

Hi everyone,
I've a txt file that contains also some oriental characters, and I have to insert all the rows of thie file in a SQL database.
I've already downloaded MySQLdb for python and set the collation of db and attributes to utf8, but when i go to see the values stored in the db in phpmyadmin I see strings like this :

×¡× × ×’× ×“×œ

Anyone can help me?
Thank you