title: Persisting utf-8 data with Doctrine2 in Symfony2
body: <p>I'm trying to persist some data that I get from a form in a MySQL database using Doctrine2 and Symfony 2. My problem is that this data is in Greek and although the Collation of the database and the fields is utf8_general_ci it Doctrine2 doesn't store correctly this characters.</p>
  
  <p>I've checked that this characters are correct in my mapping class, so I guess that the problem is my Doctrine configuration. Any ideas of what it might be?</p>