minimal.php

<?php

mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
mb_http_output("UTF-8");

iconv_set_encoding('input_encoding', 'UTF-8');
iconv_set_encoding('output_encoding', 'UTF-8');
iconv_set_encoding('internal_encoding', 'UTF-8');

$Database = mysql_connect('localhost', 'user', 'pass', true);

mysql_set_charset('utf8', $Database);

mysql_select_db('main_db',$Database);

$result = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("select short_description from organizations where identifier='gnip'", $Database));
echo($result[0]);

?>