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1st or 2nd line in source code (to have literals in the code utf8-encoded): # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- Connection: db = MySQLdb.connect(host=DB_HOST, user=DB_USER, passwd=DB_PASS, db=DB_NAME, charset="utf8mb4", use_unicode=True) For web pages, one of these: <meta charset=...

In php.ini (this is the default after PHP 5.6): default_charset UTF-8 When building a web page: header('Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8'); When connecting to MySQL: (for mysql:) Do not use the mysql_* API! (for mysqli:) $mysqli_obj->set_charset('utf8mb4'); (for PDO:) $db...