Cyrillic characters PHP fix.

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Thanks to wwwhelp for this one. If you have Issues getting Cyrillic characters to display properly on your PHP website then this piece of code will help you.

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function db_conn() {
global $opened_db, $mysql_server, $mysql_user, $mysql_pass, $mysql_database;

@$opened_db = mysql_connect($mysql_server, $mysql_user, $mysql_pass);

if (!$opened_db) {

echo '<p>For the moment, our server is off-line.<br />Please come back later...</p>';
require_once('footer.php');

die();

} else {
@mysql_select_db($mysql_database)
or die(mysql_error());
}

mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

}