Re: utf8 character show as ???

[Sergey]

I had a similar problem with PHP - the characters were showing as ???
I was able to solve it by setting:

>1) default-chararcter-set=utf8 in my.ini file
>2) default-collation=utf8_general_ci my.ini file
>3) [mysqld] init_connect='SET NAMES utf8' my.ini file
>4) created the table with default charset as utf 8

(just as described above by Shachi Rai), and also the following statement in PHP, which I put right after mysql_connect and mysql_select_db:

mysql_query('SET NAMES utf8');