Sorry - this was an accidental duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2188522/importing-text-to-mysql-strange-format, don't know how to delete question :(
If an editor sees this, please delete.
A:
Are your tables and default connection character set also in UTF-8 encoding? If not, that will be the first thing you should look into.
macabail
2010-02-02 23:46:32