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Did you set your database fields to utf-8?
Did you set your database collation to utf8_unicode_ci?
Did you set the database.php config to use utf8_unicode_ci?
Also when creating a new database with phpmyadmin you need to
goto the operations tab and then change the database to use
utf8_unicode_ci
Without seeing any code it is hard to see what is going on!
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