mysql - latin-1 to utf-8 data porting -

I have an old site whose database is in Latin-1 encoding. I duplicated a Drupal site on the old site by default, the DPL database is in UTF-8 encoding by default, now how do I port the database from Latin-1 to UTF-8. I tried myself and I got unwanted charcharchs. How should I do this.

Here's the possible solution:

  Http: // www. Oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/01/turning_mysql_data_in_latin1_t.html  

Hope that helps :)