title: Insert UTF8 string to MySQL using C#
body: <p>I keep getting "Incorrect string value" error when trying to insert a string to MySQL.</p>
  
  <p>The column type is "text COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci"
  I use a stored procedure, called from C# code.</p>
  
  <p>Already tried the following:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Adding "charset=utf8" to the web.config</li>
  <li>Converting the string to Encoded byte array</li>
  </ul>