title: UTF-8 characters not inserted as UTF-8 into MySQL table from PHP
body: <p>I am trying to insert records containing Hebrew characters from PHP into a MySQL table.</p>
  
  <p>Both the schema and the table are set with utf8 character set in MySQL.
  The Web-site is set with a charset=UTF8.</p>
  
  <p>Displaying the query on the web-page renders Hebrew correctly.</p>
  
  <p>However, once inserted into the MySQL table, the Hebrew characters are not stored correctly, rather as gibrish. Example: </p>
  
  <pre><code>××‘×• ×¡× ××Ÿ
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Tried to apply utf8_encode and mb_convert_encoding on the query string - to no avail.</p>
  
  <p>What am I missing?
  Thanks!</p>