Probable database character encoding error with chinese multilingual translation I am doing translation of a site's content from English to Chinese but upon saving the translation for a node(I previously did a few blocks) I get the error below. My search led me to questions like configuring drupal to use unicode characters but I just need another perspective to see if this is a different type of problem (because I already translated blocks and menus with the chinese characters) and how would I solve it.

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect string value:
'\xF4\x8F\xB0\x80\xE5\x8D...' for column 'field_overview_value' at row 1:
INSERT INTO {field_data_field_overview} (entity_type, entity_id, revision_id, 
bundle, delta, language, field_overview_value, field_overview_format) VALUES
(:db_insert_placeholder_0, :db_insert_placeholder_1, :db_insert_placeholder_2, 
:db_insert_placeholder_3, :db_insert_placeholder_4, :db_insert_placeholder_5,
:db_insert_placeholder_6, :db_insert_placeholder_7); Array ( 
[:db_insert_placeholder_0] =&gt; node [:db_insert_placeholder_1] =&gt; 1547 
[:db_insert_placeholder_2] =&gt; 7588 [:db_insert_placeholder_3] =&gt; product     
[:db_insert_placeholder_4] =&gt; 0 [:db_insert_placeholder_5] =&gt; und
[:db_insert_placeholder_6] =&gt; 
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[:db_insert_placeholder_7] =&gt; full_html ) in 
field_sql_storage_field_storage_write() (line 451 of 
 /var/www/html/modules/field/modules/field_sql_storage/field_sql_storage.module).
Ok So the problem was actually not the Chinese text but that I was copy-pasting from a PDF file that seemed to have injected some unwanted characters in the body that the database was rejecting.