Seriously, I'm lost in the UTF-8 world. Here is my situation (everything is happening on a mac):
- I get a web service response with perl+lwp and store it in mysql database; response is encoded in UTF-8 and I use DBI module to store data in Mysql UTF-8 table (urf8_general_ci encoding);
- when I get strings from database with CI model; output display gets garbled like UTF-8 characters displayed as ASCII; however when I try to convert that string with iconv or mb_convert_encoding - nothing happens; I get more gibberish in php's output.
- When I select a string via DBI and print in console with perl I see proper encoded hieroglyphs.