title: Convert output of MySQL query to utf8
body: <p>I have a table in my database and I want run a query like</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT column1, column2 FROM my_table WHERE my_condition;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I want the mysql to return the <code>column2</code> in utf8 encoding. Is it any function in mysql to do such task? What is that?</p>