Sentrifugo - PHP can't display Unicode (Vietnamese) correctly - php

I'm using Sentrifugo open source HRM software. When I insert Unicode text data, the page displays it properly, except for some tables like this.
For example, this website shows it incorrecty: Nguyá»�n Thá»� Hà Linh, but when I point at that to show the title or click View detail, the text displays it correctly: Nguyễn Thị Hà Linh.
The database also changes to utf8.

I appended two lines above in to application.ini.
I also use SET NAME UTF 8:
$mysqlPDO = new PDO('mysql:host='.SENTRIFUGO_HOST.';dbname='.SENTRIFUGO_DBNAME.'',SENTRIFUGO_USERNAME, SENTRIFUGO_PASSWORD,array(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION));
$mysqlPDO->exec("set names utf8");
All columns in every table are utf8.
Please see these images:
- Database
Column
Somewhere on web show well
Somewhere show symbol (like ASCII)

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php utf-8 encoding for chinese text

I am doing migration to generate SQL from one DB to another.
I am trying to get the output
But when I did a mb_convert_encoding("Mr.Wang (王老板)", 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1252')
I have the output as
I have those two extra "box". Any idea what am I doing wrong?
phpMyAdmin is able to export my old database containing chinese text in correct format, how do it do that in script?
*updated the images to better show my view
Have you tried setting the header in the script to UTF8? What I normally use is the following:
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
That has worked for me so far for German characters & some Arabic & Japanese etc.
I found that I actually need to
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
before my select statement. And I do not need to run mb_convert_encoding("Mr.Wang (王老板)", 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1252') at all.
Now if I write my insert sql I got the correct text i wanted.

mysql & UTF8 Issue with arabic

this might look like a similar issues for utf8 and Arabic language with MySQL database but i searched for result and found none..
my database endocing is set to utf8_general_ci ,
i had my php paging to be encoded as ansi by default
the arabic language in database shows as : ãÌÑÈ
but i changed it to utf8 ,
if i add new input to database , the arabic language in database shows as : زين
i dont care how it show indatabase as long as it shows normally in php page ,
after changing the php page to utf8 , when adding input than retriving it , if show result as it should .
but the old data which was added before converting the page encoding to uft8 show like this : �����
i tried a lot of methods for fixis this like using iconv in ssh and php , utf8_decode() utf8_encode() .. and more but none worked .
so i was hoping that you have a solution for me here ?
update :: Main goal was solved by retrieving data from php page in old encoding ' windows-1256' than update it from ssh .
but one issue left ::
i have some text that was inserted as 'windows-1256' and other that was inserted as 'utf-8' so now the windows encoding was converted to utf-8 and works fine , but the original utf-8 was converted as well to something unreadable , using iconv in php, with old page encoding ..
so is there a way to check what encoding is original in order to convert or not ?
Try run query set name utf8 after create a DB connection, before run any other query.
Such as :
$dbh = new PDO('mysql:dbname='.DB_NAME.';host='.DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
$dbh->exec('set names utf8');

'fi' displaying incorrectly in database

I have a mySQL database with the following
e.g.
Microeconomics.
The ‘theory of the ï¬rm’
or:
Resource allocation modiï¬cations.
For some reason, the text that has been input (through CKEditor), has been changed so any instances of fi are in the database as 'ï¬'. I believe this is something to do with HTML entities. The text (I believe) was copy-pasted from a word document, which could be part of the problem.
How do I change (in PHP or mySQL) all instances of 'ï¬' into fi? When rendered as a PDF by TCPDF, it shows a ? (e.g. financial = ?nancial, significant = signi?cant)
Thanks in advance.
This statement will correct all the false instances for the column that contains the 'ï¬'
Update table Set
column = replace(column, 'ï¬', 'fi')

mysql_query returns nothing when called with special characters (The danish characters: æøå)

I generate a mysql query from a form with a free text search field.
Something like:
SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE 'something' LIKE '%SEARCH%'
All this works fine and returns the valid rows when the search does not contain any special characters, like the danish characters ÆØÅ.
When these letters ARE used, the query returns no results, all though when i take the generated query string and plug it into phpMyAdmin i get exacly the result i want.
Thanks
add this line of code in your connection file...
mysql_set_charset("utf8", $db);
it is better for you to encode your data to UTF-8 before you pass it into query...
I'm not using Danish but Czech but I think there are the same (at least by UTF8 implementation) - you must keep in mind used encoding (original server script, data tables self and also your database connection handler).
I think you have an encoding problem, maybe phpMyAdmin is using a different client encoding than your other client. SET NAMES 'encoding' should just do what you need, I think.
Also we can use PHP variable and convert it before the select operation (supposing data base is ISOO-8859-2) .
Example:
// word with special characters
$search='kötészeti';
// conversion to ISO
$search=iconv("UTF-8","ISO-8859-2", $search);
// create search condition
$condition="SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE 'something' LIKE '%$search%'";
// apply query
mysql_query($condition);

Cakephp Finnish language not coming out properly

In Cake, I have this issue with Finnish language not displaying properly. I have set utf encoding in config.php, charset output in default.ctp and also config in core.php
Is there a reason why it's not coming out properly?
To give you an idea the link is below:
http://www.likeslomakkeet.net/petitions/add
What if you re-import your data to database after changed your database.php and database collations? Try re-adding any commune with special characters like "Hämeenkyrö" and see how it looks like in database.
edit: You could also filter out all communes with "(lakkautettu)" because they no longer exists.
Did you also set the database connection to UTF-8 in database.php?
For MySQL, that would be:
'encoding' => 'utf8' // no hyphen

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