Im unable to save my encrypted passwords!

[Sergio Juarez]

I have a php function that takes some normal text as input and outputs a encrypted string. When I try to insert thru my PHP or mysql client that encrypted string it gives me the following error:

ERROR 1406 (22001): Data too long for column 'password' at row 1

But when I do the same thing with Phpmyadmin it succesfully inserts the string. The field is a varchar (255).

I think the problem has something to do with the Character set, I have enabled UTF-8 for the table. Does anybody knows how can I fix this problem? thanks.