I am working with MySQL server, where I need to write/read some content contains latin characters like čćšž, but for some reason my database can not store č and ć characters.

As far as I know those characters should belong inside utf8_general_ci.

I added this to my.cnf file:

[mysqld] init_connect='SET collation_connection = utf8_general_ci' init_connect='SET NAMES utf8' character-set-server=utf8 collation-server=utf8_general_ci skip-character-set-client-handshake

Take a look at this picture with all encoding:

I use SOURCE command to import my database to server. Here is content of SQL dump:

SET NAMES utf8; /*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=''*/; /*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */; /*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */; /*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */; /*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */; CREATE DATABASE /*!32312 IF NOT EXISTS*/`horoskopium` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci; USE `horoskopium`; /*Table structure for table `day` */ DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `day`; CREATE TABLE `day` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `text` text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=85 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; /*Table structure for table `love` */ DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `love`; CREATE TABLE `love` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `text` text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=97 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; /*Table structure for table `month` */ DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `month`; CREATE TABLE `month` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `text` text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=25 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; /*Table structure for table `week` */ DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `week`; CREATE TABLE `week` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `text` text, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=49 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; /*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */; /*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */; /*!40014 SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS */; /*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;

How I can solve this?