title: Azure website IIS not encoding utf8
body: <p>My website is in Azure and the Database is MySQL, ASP.NET 4.0</p>
  
  <p>When I run on localhost (Connected to production DB), I can read-write to the DB in utf8.</p>
  
  <p>When I run on Azure (aka, production) I can only read DB in utf8 but when trying to write it inserts '???? ???? ????'.</p>
  
  <p>So, If it's the same Database and same code, the difference must be IIS, no?</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone assist me how to define it to work?</p>
  
  <p>(btw, the MySQL connection-string has '<code>charset=utf8</code>')</p>
  
  <p>update:
  the web.config file has:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>