Re: charaters from geoname UTF8 table display as latin1 - how to correct this?

[Ivan Gutschy]

I have prepared printscreen of phpmyadmin table:
http://img14.imageshack.us/i/citiesc.jpg/

You can notice how some city names have special characters visible in phpmyadmin.
however, those characters are displayes as ?? (question marks) on the web site.

I have tried with:
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$dbc);

mysql connection used so far looks like this:
$dbc = @mysqli_connect (DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME) OR die ('Could not connect to MySQL: ' . mysqli_connect_error() );

i have tried to modify to use mysql_set_characters it but it didn't work:
$dbc=@mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
@mysql_set_charset('utf8',$dbc);
$dbc2=@mysql_select_db(DB_NAME,$dbc);

I have played with most of the options like set names within query and so on either it doesn't work, or it breaks my query.

I would appreciate if you could tell me what commands or querys to run and their proper syntax, since I am not an expert programmer. Thank you :D