Getting EUC encoded data into/out of Joomla/mySQL

[jaystarkey]

I run a Joomla site.  The backend database is all the default latin...swedish... encoding.  However, the data is stored as Japanese EUC and everything displays correctly in Joomla.  However, I have 2 problems:

1) I need to get the data out of mySQL.  When I try to export the "content" table, everything turns to junk and it certainly doesn't maintain the encodings.  I am trying to do this through phpMyAdmin. 

2) I need to import a file into a database table.  The file is an EUC encoded CVS file.  In phpMyAdmin, I specify the import file as "CSV" encoding "Japanese EUC" and everything goes well.  However, all the Japanese is turned into question marks.

What I really don't understand is why I can submit Japanese from an HTML page and have it store perfectly in mySQL, I can view the data perfectly via a web page, but I just can't seem to get anything out or in via phpMyAdmin.

Can someone clear this up and explain to me how to get data into/out of mySQL?

Thank you!