MySQL charset issue

I'm not sure exactly why t开发者_开发技巧his happened, but I'm assuming it was an dump and import. The db is full of characters like — for commas and such. I've tried various solutions on the web, but nothing seems to work. I've verified that the html header specifies utf8.

Any ideas on how I can get the entire db back to normal characters?

Had your dumpfile set encoding to utf8? This could be the problem