UTF8 characters in the MySQL table (umlauts, etc.) are not showing up in the Editor's HTML or JSON

Hi there. I have a MySQL table that has some cells that have UTF-8 characters in it, such as words with umlauts. But those pieces of data are not showing up in the HTML front-end where I am running Editor, and they're not showing up in the JSON either (I am running it server-side). I saw this thread regarding a similar issue in DataTables...

http://www.datatables.net/forums/discussion/9259/german-umlaut-ue-etc.-not-showing-server-side-scripting/p1

...but I'm not sure how to adapt that for the Editor architecture and the PDO stuff. Suggestions?

Thanks.


- Brooke