problems with Unicode (UTF-8) and MySQL 4.1.1a !

[xdummy2]

Hello,

i have a problem with my MySQL 4.1.1a database an the unicode (UTF-8) data.
All send HTML document (charset=utf8) data, are stored in the following
schema ("#2350;#2366;#2350;#2381;...&quot. MySQL and the required datafields
are specified with utf8_general_ci.

My questions:
How can I check if the send Data are correct stored in the MySQL database.
And how can I observe if MySQL gets and outputs the UTF-8 data in the right way?

thanks

your xdummy