Problem with UTF-8 and swedish åäö

If you have trouble storing åäö in a UTF-8 mysql database.
make sure field, table and database is utf8_general_ci
Check mysql varaibles by running the following mysql command:

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "character%";

##
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    latin1
character_set_system    utf8
character_sets_dir    /usr/share/mysql/charsets/

Make sure the above is UTF-8
try setting utf8 in PHP code:
<?php
mysql_set_charset
('utf8');
?>
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