> 'sqlite_unicode => 1' in the connect string doesn't seem to work. Presumably you're exporting from mysql to a file via mysqldump, finagling the file, and then importing it to sqlite. If so, first make sure that the export file is indeed utf8. According to: <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysqldump.html> that might not be the case, depending on how it's exported (search that page for "encoding" for the example they mention, but that page is otherwise pretty bereft of info on the topic). Related: - <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7663132/how-to-change-encoding-of-the-mysql-dump-files> - <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49379538/how-take-mysqldump-with-utf8>