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Fixing double-utf8-encoded mysql chars
mysqldump -h DB_HOST -u DB_USER -p DB_PASSWORD --opt --quote-names \
--skip-set-charset --default-character-set=latin1 DB_NAME > DB_NAME-dump.sql
mysql -h DB_HOST -u DB_USER -p DB_PASSWORD \
--default-character-set=utf8 DB_NAME < DB_NAME-dump.sql
via http://blog.hno3.org/2010/04/22/fixing-double-encoded-utf-8-data-in-mysql/
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