MySQL connection - ?? instead of non-standard latin characters

[Dawid]

I’ve connected Looker to a MySQL instance and even added extra connection parameters like:

characterEncoding=utf8

characterSetResults=utf8

but for some reason, even in SQL Runner, the data is displayed like this:

I added the above connection options as that’s how my DataGrip is configured and there the data is displayed correctly. Am I missing something?

[Dawid]

I just stumbled upon the same problem. Wondering if anybody had solved this?