Moved Database now special chars are not displaying

Moved the database on same host to different server. Now special chars are displaying incorrectly. I did a little digging and tried the methods mentioned in this thread with no luck:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgraded-to-bigger-sever-and-now-weird-characters?replies=4

The wp-config file defaults to:
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
which displays chars like this Р—

commenting out that line OR changing that line to ‘utf8_general_ci’
changes the characters to ���

I looked at the database and that table is collated as ‘utf8_general_ci’
and the chars appear in the db as —

thankfully the db is relatively small so if I have to go in and do all this by hand that won’t be the end of the world, but obviously I’d like to fix this with the minimal amount of copying and pasting.