Koha and UTF-8

So, once again I took the fight with Koha to make it work with non ASCII characters. I set the the following variables for MySQL, Apache and PHP

vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

vim/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
default_charset = "utf-8"



vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf
[client]
character_set_client=utf8
[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysqld]
init-connect = 'SET NAMES utf8'
character-set-server=utf8
collation-server=utf8_swedish_ci

/etc/rc3.d/S19mysql restart

mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'collation%';
+----------------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | utf8_swedish_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_swedish_ci |
+----------------------+-----------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

However when I try to add an item it cuts of the text at the non ASCII char. Look at these pictures:



Looks good (and a good book too)

Now I import the search result:



See, the prominent writer JMG Le Clézio is imported as "Le Cl", text cut at the é.

I can't put my finger on where the error is but it feels like it's PHP that is bugging me...

Update1: I went into the System Preferences->Intranet and changed Template Encoding to UTF-8 ( from ISO 8859-1). Guess what happened? Now the text is still cut and the non ASCII character is shown like a �

This drives me nuts...