It's Lithuanian letters ąčęėįšųūž. Cs can show it with utf8 without BOM from multi-langual.
As I know, mysql also not use BOM. It's just a simple text saved in database.
Tried "SET NAMES utf8", but it doesn't change anything (it helps getting strings in utf8 format).
It is possible to convert from one encoding to other through bits, but I missed that lesson in studies. What a shame

Now I would need to read all this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
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