utf8_general_ci is what you want to use, utf8_bin is binary......

However there is PHP specific issues with utf-8, being erradicated in PHP 6 but definitely there is some. Also if you are scraping information, you do need to check content type and change it.

However if you just want functions to work with php, check the mbstring extension and if you are using preg functions you need to make them Unicode compatible.

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