I'm not quite sure if this is the right place to post this...

I am just...intrigated with this utf8 encoding, i have a mysql database set with utf8_bin, my html files have their respective utf8 Content-type headers and all my files are stored as utf8 with my editor (Notepad++).

I stored japanese and chinese characters, tildes and other "conflictive" characters, later i retrive the data with a query and it's served in the page correctly.

So there's no problem :D, but the thing is that if a take a look at the data with my MySQL command line client the data is "corrupted" (i'm not sure corrupted is the right word in this case).

Do you know what's wrong here? could that be a problem in some case?