sql help

I have an sql database which is in utf8_general encoding. The database saves english characters fine but when it comes to turkish and french characters it will not save them correctly. What encoding do i need to use so that all three are accepted? The website is created in php and mysql

can anyone write a sample php script that saves a value to a database and then lets you read it again in php. and if you can you test it first, here are ome sample values I d like are...

Beşiktaş Gençlerbirliği, İstanbul Büyükşehir, Mediaş, Pandurii Târgu-Jiu, ŁÃ³dź, Köln, Coruña, ZapreÅ¡ić etc

thanks