Getting a LAMP install going with full UTF-8 (not necessary with gentoo, it already defaults to UTF-8 everywhere).

php config

sudo vim /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

default_charset="utf-8"
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8

sudo service apache2 restart

mysql config

sudo vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf

[client]
default-character-set = utf8

[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8
character-set-server=utf8
collation-server=utf8_general_ci
skip-character-set-client-handshake

sudo service mysql restart

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