shad

I also noticed that when the feed date is translated, agregators and planet cant parse correctly the date and think that either the postdate is the time the feed was fetched or the 1970/01/01, this is only occur with the main rss feed , the comment one is ok.
I rollback the the 1.2 way to print the date and that worked fine

I got the exactly same problem, when I check the databases, I can see its in utf-8 but as soon as I run trough the update.php page, it seem that every post, comment and title transform to iso8859-1:
if I check my main page, I see garbled text but if I switch the browser character encoding to iso8859-1, I can see correctly french and western european accentued characters but asian one keep displayed wrongly.

Im using MySQL 4.1 with
default-character-set = utf8 set to the [client] and [mysqld] sections
and my locales are fr_FR.UTF-8