MySQL/MariaDB connection in asp code encodes wrongly charset utf8 at insert or update in data base
I had &lt;%@language="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252" LCID=1033%&gt; and needed &lt;%@language="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001" LCID=1033%&gt; for it to work. Also, after doing this I needed to drop charset=utf8 from the connection string.