So when I retrieve a column from my database and echo the string in php it displays microsoft special chars as this �.
However if I copy the string from the cell, paste it into my script and echo it directly, I get the correct content.
At what stage between retrieving the data and displaying it is this going wrong?
It is an MS SQL database. If any more information on current set up will help, let me know and I will supply it, it's just at this point I'm not sure what will be usefull and what wont.
It's down to encoding.
Is your database table encoded in the same character set as the PHP document, e.g. UTF=8?
If you can, either change the database table's collation or the PHP document's encoding, either with
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
or
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
with the correct character set.
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how can i get the UTF-8 data from the MSSQL Table. I have some names that are wrong converted. In the place where the umlat mark is I'm getting a sign like this �.
So for a name Gergö it show's Gerg�.
I'm not sure where the problem is. From the MSSQL to PHP conversion or PHP to HTML conversion. For this purpose im using the sqlsrv functions.
In HTML i added the meta tag <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> but this didn't solve the problem. I also added before the connection starts the ini_set('mssql.charset', 'UTF-8'); function but this also didn't helped.
Im trying to get a some data from the db , but the output isn't what i expected.
Doing my own querying on the db , i get this output : string 'C�te d�Ivoire' (length=13)
Querying the db from phpmyadmin i get normal output : Côte d’Ivoire
php.ini default charset, mysql db default charset , <meta> charset are all set to utf-8 .
I can't fugire it out where the encoding is being made that i get different output with same configuration .
P.S. : using mysqli driver .
In the same page that gives you wrong results, try first running this instruction
print base64_encode("Côte");
The correct answer is Q8O0dGU.... If you get something else, like Q/R0ZQo..., this means that your script is working with another charset (here Latin-1) instead of UTF-8. It's still possible that also MySQL and also the browser are playing tricks, but the line above ensures that PHP and/or your editor are playing you false.
Next, extract Côte from the database and output its base64_encode. If you see Q8O0..., then the connection between MySQL and PHP is safely UTF8. If not, then whatever else might also be needed, you need to change the MySQL charset (SET NAMES utf8 and/or ALTER of table and database collation).
If PHP is UTF8, and MySQL is UTF8, and still you see invalid characters, then it's something between PHP and the browser. Verify that the content type header is sent correctly; if not, try sending it yourself as first thing in the script:
Header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF8');
For example in Apache configuration you should have
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
Verify also that your browser is not set to override both server charset and auto-detection.
NOTE: as a rule of thumb, if you get a single diamond with a question mark instead of a UTF8 international character, this means that an UTF8 reader received an invalid UTF8 code point. In other words, the entity showing the diamond (your browser) is expecting UTF8, but is receiving something else, for example Latin1 a.k.a. ISO-8859-15.
Another difficult-to-track way of getting that error is if the output somehow contains a byte order mark (BOM). This may happen if you create a file such as
###<?php
Header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF8");
?>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF8" />
</head>
<body>
Hellò, world!
</body>
</html>
where that ### is an (invisible in most editors) UTF8 BOM. To remove it, you either need to save the file as "without BOM" if the editor allows it, or use a different editor.
If you do your "own querying" with the command line tool mysql, you have to set the option --default-character-set=utf8, too. Otherwise, please tell us how you do your own querying.
I got a varbinary field in my database, and got some problems with displaying special (Polish) characters like ąśćężźć.
Example: SELECT local_name from items WHERE id = 140 returns: Pieczęć, the problem appears when I want to print this data on my website (encoding UTF-8 there), then the Pieczęć turns into the following string: Piecz�� tried also to use utf8_encode() PHP function but it gives the following result: Pieczêæ.
How can I solve that so it will print the special characters without problem?
same adivce as here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11254131/1489924
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" >
and/or
SET NAMES 'utf8'
worked for me in most situations.
Good luck!
I've got the following problem with my PMA-GUI:
While the data submitted by PHP-Scripts to my database is displayed correctly, ONLY PMA displays several german Umlaut's (such as äüß, ..) as ü or ä
The problem occurs also while exporting tables to file..
MySQL: 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.8
PMA: 3.4.5
Database & fields are utf8_general_ci
Does anybody know a solution?
Are you sure that your client is sending data as utf-8?
this seems to me a duplicate of:
German Umlaute in Mysql/Phpmyadmin
You need to ensure you use consistent use of character set/character encoding.
For example, to normalise to UTF-8 content, your DB fields' character sets should be set to UTF-8. Then, in your PHP (if you have your own scripts running that fetch DB information) you need to then add to the head section:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
Then, in the PHP, before any output to the browser, include the content type PHP header:
header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
Before you run any SQL to fetch content (so after you connect, but before executing your query), use mysql_set_charset:
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$link);
// $link is optional, refers to your DB connection
You can think of it as three steps:
The step used to add the characters to your DB
Storage of characters in your DB
Retrieval and display of characters
The simplest bet to ensure conformity and that characters display as you anticipate, is to ensure the correct, consistant, character set is defined at each stage.
All, Im having the age old problem with character encoding...
I have a mySQL DB with a field set to utf8_unicode_ci. My PHP page as the header entry <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />. When I use a simple form to POST data with Cyrillic characters to the DB, e.g. 'гыдлпоо', the characters display correctly in the textarea, and are added to the DB where they display correctly.
When fetching the characters from the DB, my page only displays a series of question marks. I've used mb_detect_encoding($content, "UTF-8,ISO-8859-1", true); and the content is UTF-8, however the characters do not display.
I've searched around (including on SO) and tried any number of solutions, to no avail- any help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks
Do this right after mysql_connect() and mysql_select_db():
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
Try using mysql_set_charset() function before fetching data from database.
did you try to use the form with
enctype="multipart/form-data"
?
this might help.. it's not necessary for the text to be readable in your database.. when they are saved they should be utf8 encoded.. you need them to look fine when you output the string again