Since I have many pages using the same horse table, would it be better to change the database column horses to UTF-8?
Also some pages are still using the MySQI connection verses mySQL, so adjusting the connection needs to be done in numerous files verses just the database.
Also I noticed the same trouble with hyphens displaying incorrectly on some of my MySQL pages and when I look at that connection I do not see a reference to the charset therefore I am wondering what the resolution is for MySQL.