Special characters lost when using eastern european languages (Slovakian and Hungarian)

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Have a site with special hungarian characters
2. Create new child.
3. Commit changes

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect characters to remain, instead the characters are first replaced by "?" 
when the child is created then when moved to production they are moved across 
also.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Using 1.0.1 with a linux host

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by samco...@googlemail.com on 17 Mar 2011 at 12:08

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My bad.  After many hours of scouring your code and not finding the expected 
defect I finally found that it was my database settings that needed changing.

My mysql db was using the default latin1 character set, so after changing it to 
utf8, with the appropriate local collation type it worked perfectly.

Original comment by samco...@googlemail.com on 29 Mar 2011 at 11:50