title: Umlauts are displayed as ? in my MySQL database?
body: <p>this is my local scenario:</p>
  
  <p>I have an application which reads some CSV files and writers the content to my local MYSQL database. The content contains umlauts, such as "ß" or "Ä". Locally everything works fine, the umlauts are written to the db and also displayed correclty inside the app which reads the db.</p>
  
  <p>Now I moved this scenario to the amazon cloud and suddenly "ß" becomes "?" in the db. I checked what the program reads from the CSV files and there it is still a "ß". So it must be the writing to the database I guess, question is, why was this working locally but not on my cloud server? Is this a db problem, or a PHP problem?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks! :)</p>