Foreign characters don't display properly in MYSQL

PHP
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      Hello,

I have a contact form which has some Turkish text inputs. Character
liks “ş” “ı” “ğ” and “ç” are not displaying in my DB correctly. Instead I
am getting bunch of weird characters. Meta charset is UTF8 on the form
page but I don’ t know what I am missing here. Any suggestions?

Thanks…

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Have you set your DB connection to UTF-8?

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No. I have only given accept-charset="UTF-8 attribute to my form. How should I set my DB connection to UTF-8?

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Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this problem? My DB is also set to UTF-8 and I have checked everything but no luck…

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