Well, 8 hours ago I posted this desperately in need of an answer. Yes, it's Sunday, but one's got to work hard if he wants to get somewhere faster... No one replied... but... I've found the solution...
Putting in simple terms:
1. Your forms must be coded in UTF-8
2. The pages where you want to display multilanguage text too.
This means you MUST use this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
3. Your MySQL table MUST be coded as utf8_general_ci
Surprisingly, this is not enough and this is what was driving me nuts...
4. So, to fix this, you must use this before issuing the sql commands:
$defineutf = "SET NAMES 'utf8";
$utf = mysql_query($defineutf);
This is the article that saved my day:
http://www.shawnolson.net/a/946/unic...-mysql-41.html 
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