Here's an example.
I published THIS to a form:
A Chinese character, also known as a Han character (汉字 / 漢字; Hànzì), is a logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi), Japanese (kanji), less frequently Korean (hanja), and formerly Vietnamese (hán tự), and other languages.
and this is what i'm seeing in MySQL:
A Chinese character, also known as a Han character (汉字 / 漢字; Hànzì), is a logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi), Japanese (kanji), less frequ...
and that's exactly how it's reading when returned from the database.
Any help, appreciated.