On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Aziz Saleh <azizsaleh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you want to use adminier you would have to download the source, modify > the code to export the file in urf8 and re-compile via php (assumption). > > Alternatively, why not use something established like phpmyadmin? It is > more than 1 file, but pretty flexible. > > Well I was having the same problem with phpmyadmin. Turns out it was some setting in my php.ini. One of the adminer folks saw the differences. Of course I had grabbed those php.ino changes from some UTF-8 checklist article. Didn't book mark it, so I'm not sure which one. Anyway...made the changes back to the defaults and suddenly adminer and the command line agree. The solution is here: https://sourceforge.net/p/adminer/discussion/960418/thread/33595373/#42df Thanks to everyone here for lending some eyeballs to the issue!