Comment to I see question my marks in my text
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Yes, I had this case too, I think it's the default charset of the database that breaks this. To remedy, I added this in my .cnf file
init_connect = 'SET collation_connection = utf8mb4_unicode_ci' init_connect = 'SET NAMES utf8mb4' character-set-server = utf8mb4 collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci skip-character-set-client-handshake