title: Displaying Cyrillic characters from a latin1 encoded MySQL table
body: <p>I have a latin1_swedish_ci table that contains cyrillic characters. When I look at the data through phpMyAdmin, it tooks something like:</p>
  
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  <p>My goal is to use PHP to fetch each string, send it to Google Translate, and store the result in the MySQL database in a new column.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that all I get when I query the query is garbage like what you see here. I know that I have to play with the headers, the MySQL connection and the character encoding but I have yet to find something that works. What could I do to get the string in Cyrillic?</p>