Hi @an75824,
Ideally these settings should be…
client_charset = utf-8
connection_charset = utf8
database_charset = utf8
charset_normalization = Off
If you already have content in your database that’s not properly UTF-8 encoded, you may need to transcode your database. You can do this by running a mysqldump through a transcoder like iconv and then loading the result back in to MySQL.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team