mysql - PHP encoding issue

I have a trouble displaying Cyrillic characters properly. Looked in forums, tried a few different thing and nothing works.

Site runs on PHP / MySQL.

MySQL tables charset is utf8, and collation is utf8_general_ci
Name entry in DB looks correct (in PhpmyAdmin):
Sasha Рукина

Output on page http://www.sodaq.com/: Sasha ??????

Inside PHP I use:

mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
mb_http_output("UTF-8");

And send HTTP header 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'

Still, shows '????' instead of normal characters.

Please help.

Answer

try to execute the following query before loading your data

SET NAMES 'utf8';