There is a table in the database. It has meaning in Cyrillic. Suppose "Murmansk". Everything is perfectly displayed, no problems with the encoding.
However, in php, with output, I get "nKhTNBOUL" instead of "Murmansk".
mysql_set_charset ("utf8", $ db) does not help.
Versions:
php 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.24 / 10.0.33-MariaDB Variables with DB encodings:
