Geonames database encoding for cyrillic symbols

Question

I have problem with geonames.org database imported into MySQl. I use utf8_general_ci on table 'alternatenames', but have incorrect encoding on cyrillic names (for example, objects like Тур). Is there some good practice to make characters appear correctly?

Answer 1

I solved this problem. I used utf8mb4 encoding (new standard of geonames encoding) instead of simple utf8. All cyrillic characters are correct now.