russian (any) language in wordpress

I tried to setup a new wordpress blog. To my unpleasant surprise, I got a problem with cyrillic letters. They just didn't work, being displayed as junk or as question marks. I spent some time to find out how to correctly setup WordPress for the utf8 environment. Actually, it's very easy:

The Mysql database should be created this way:

CREATE DATABASE name CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

The file wp-config.php should contain:

define('DB_CHARSET','utf8');

In case of troubles, the database must be revised first. Check the UTF8 options and texts using phpMyAdmin.

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