You had `latin1` somewhere.  See https://stackoverflow.com/a/38363567/1766831 .  Do...

* the `SELECT HEX ...` to see whether you have the correct utf8 encoding: `E28099`.
* `SHOW CREATE TABLE` to see what `CHARACTER SET` that column has.
* `SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'char%';` to see what the connection is like.

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