I have a simple form that sends (via php) some variables to a mySql database.
The problem is that it's focused to Portuguese audience, and we use several unusual letters, like "ç" and "ã". Whenever someone sends data with those letters, the result is very "garbled" in the phpMyAdmin.
Quick example for a field would be "Escola de Condução Clássica" apears as "4573636f6c6120646520636f6e6475c383c2a7c383c2a36f20436c617373696361" in the phpMyAdmin.
I tried setting the collation to "utf8_bin", with no avail.
Any ideias?
Thank you.
EDIT: Field type is varchar(30) and charset shows as "utf8".