Encoding error with polish charset during transfer of database / server seting up

Question

I am trying to transfer one of my databases from one host (home.pl) to another (my newly set server). The script that I am trying to transfer is wordpress. Unluckily irrespectiv

Answer 1

SET NAMES utf8;

(The default is latin11, which leads to Ä™.)

Note: init_connect is not executed for root (or any SUPER) user. So this failed you:

init_connect='SET NAMES utf8'