title: C# Mysql UTF8 Encoding
body: <p>I have a mysql database with utf8_general_ci encoding ,</p>
  
  <p>i'm connecting to the same database with php using utf-8 page and file encode and no problem
  but when connection mysql with C# i have letters like this ØºØ²Ø© </p>
  
  <p>i editit the connection string to be like this </p>
  
  <pre><code>server=localhost;password=root;User Id=root;Persist Security Info=True;database=mydatabase;Character Set=utf8
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but the same problem .</p>