title: MySQL - data encoded as charset windows-1251 not showing on the server
body: <p>I'm trying to deal with an old server that was resurrected after many years. The problem is that the DB is in a weird state.</p>
  <p>The website reads the information from the DB with charset =&quot;windows-1251&quot;. The whole table and the fields in the table seen in phpMyAdmin have collation &quot;cp-1251&quot;, which I think is the same as windows=1251. If the text is written in latin everything is displayed properly, but if I write the text in Bulgarian it won't work. Any ideas how to fix the DB issue? I have access to the phpMyAdmin &amp; the admin panel of the website.</p>
  <p>I was thinking to switch the charset &amp; collation to utf-8 but I get &quot;?&quot; everywhere. Also I looked up similar websites and I saw that they were using charset = windows-1251 for the same fields, which makes me think that the data in the table is not right.</p>