MySQL database query coding problem in PHP - php

Question

Hello I have this problem: I have MySQL Database with collation latin1_bin. In database I have table with collation utf8_slovak_ci. All collumns is text. In rows I have values with ť í ž ľ š č(utf8) chars, but PHP code returns values with utf8 chars replaced by � , ? and other not readable chars. In html head I have set charset to utf-8. Please help me. I have this code:
//From config file
define ("DATABASE_SERVER", "localhost");
define ("DATABASE_LOGIN", "root");
define ("DATABASE_PASSWORD", "root");
define ("DATABASE_DATABASE", "novymost");
mysql_connect(DATABASE_SERVER, DATABASE_LOGIN, DATABASE_PASSWORD)or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("novymost")or die(mysql_error());
$results=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Downloads") or die(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_array( $result );
// Print out the contents of the entry
while($rows = mysql_fetch_array($results))
{
echo("<li>");
echo "<a href=\"".$rows["URL"];
echo("\">");
echo "".$rows["TITLE"];
echo(" - ".$rows["SIZE"]);
echo("</a>");
echo("<br/></li>");
}

Answer 1

run the query
mysql_query( "set names utf8" );
before runnign any other queries. This sets the connection charset
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-connection.html

Answer 2

In php:
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");
In HTML:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
In Database before queries:
mysql_query( "set names utf8" );
Or you can also convert you latin-table to a UTF8-table:
INSERT INTO utf8table (utf8column)
SELECT CONVERT(latin1field USING utf8)
FROM latin1table;