Your database was not created to support UTF8. Assuming that the name of your database is "concrete", it should have been created with this command.

mysql> create database concrete default character set utf8 default collate utf8_unicode_ci;

to change it at this point run this command on the database:

In php.ini, you should set the following variables.

default_charset = "UTF-8"
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8

If you own the server or have full control over mysql, you can add the following lines to /etc/mysql/my.cnf under the appropriate sections to force all connections to all databases to be UTF8.

[client]
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqld]
init_connect='SET collation_connection = utf8_unicode_ci; SET NAMES utf8;'
default-character-set=utf8
character-set-server=utf8
collation-server=utf8_unicode_ci
skip-character-set-client-handshake

[mysqldump]
default-character-set=utf8

[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8

Thank you for your response! However, this was a trial account created automatically. Isn't there anything I can do like "in the cloud" of my online account?

I doubt it, I don't think you have acces to the database on a trial account, I suggest you move past trial when going as far as language support and try it on your own test enviroment at your host.

I do believe that the databases that come with a trial account are configured correctly.

That's what I thought, but wanted to check if I haven't missed anything. Basically, I wanted to make sure that I can work with Bulgarian before going forward, but I guess the fact that there's this type of Unicode support answers the question and I have to move to the next step with my trial account.

Thanks for your help!