russian characters not accepted in php / phpmyadmin ?

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Published on 2010-05-19T15:59:04Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 16:00 UTC
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I have a website in 3 languages: english, dutch and russian.

There's a little CMS where the user can update the text on the website.

everything works good, except for the russian text.. If I enter any russian text in the form in the CMS, I get "????" in the phpmyadmin database and on the website.

I am completely new to charsets, it's the first time I am building a website in a language that is not supported like in this case..

Could someone please tell me what's the problem here? and what I have to do to make this work in russian language?

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