How can I get non-english characters from ajax form to MySQL

Programmer Question

I have a form that submits data using the jQuery form plugin. From there it goes through some server side handling and finally stored in a MySQL db.

Upon submitting these characters ����� they become sent to the server as áâãäï' (before hitting the database). The same type of thing happens with Japanese characters, etc.

I have tried both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 for the form encoding, page encoding, php server side encoding and db encoding. Still no luck.

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