Cyrillic is stored strangely

[Ser5]

Here is the code:

Gatekeeper::createGroup(array(
    'name'        => 'spam_receivers',
    'description' => 'Получатели рассылки',
));
$group = Gatekeeper::findGroupByName('spam_receivers');
var_dump($group->name, $group->description);

As you can see, there are two words in description.
The PHP script is written in UTF-8.

When I look into the "groups" table, I see this: "Получатели"
It is one word stored in an unknown way for me.
var_dump() gives me this:

string(14) "spam_receivers"
string(20) "Получатели"

It manages to decode the garbage back to cyrillic, but the second word is lost anyway.

Users cyrillic UTF data is stored in the same way - as garbage.

I think UTF-8 should be stored as UTF-8 without any magic.
BTW, groups table has right encoding of "utf8_general_ci".

[enygma]

Hmm, weird...I don't manually set the encoding on those tables in the migrations. Maybe I should, I think Phinx can do that. I'd have to check into it though. I hadn't really tested much yet with other character sets or languages.

[Ser5]

Please look at my pull request #25. I'm not sure if I created pull request right - didn't do it before, hehe; I just clicked some buttons here and there and something happened, I hope right things happened.

[Ser5]

Regarding description being truncated - please also see #23, about varchar(20): word "Получатели" consists exactly of 10 chars, which, without charset=utf-8, converts to "Получатели" consisting of 20 chars, second word doesn't fit into description field, being lost. With charset=utf-8 both words fit well.