Extent 2: passing string to database with utf8 encoding results in invalid chars

[Sven Bisaro]

This is the script I use to create my test db:

drop database monkey;
--Create database
--
create database if not exists monkey character set utf8;
use monkey;
--
--Create tbl_article
--
create table if not exists tbl_monkey(pk_monkey_id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
monkey_name varchar(255)) engine innodb;
desc tbl_monkey;