I have tried for a while now to set the right encoding to show danish characters on my MySQL query. I haven't found exactly a similar situation.
My output shows a question mark instead of the appropriate characters. This is my connect file.
<?php
$con=mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
?>
And here is my display file:
<?php
include("connect.php");
mysql_select_db("paradise",$con);
$result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM CITATER4 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1",$con);
while($data = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
echo "<aside class=\"citatout\">";
echo "<div id=\"paradiso\" class=\"text-vertical-center-q\">";
echo utf8_encode("<h1 class=\"animated fadeIn\" align=center>$data[0]</h1>");
echo utf8_encode("<h2 class=\"animated fadeIn\" align=center>$data[1]</h2>");
echo "</div>";
echo "</aside>";
}
?>
I tried to set the encoding using this code but it still didn't change. I found this in another question here on Stackoverflow.
mysql_set_charset("utf8", $con);
I encoded the strings in the displayed file with utf8_encode and it still doesn't work.
Do you have a solution?
You should not be needing to use utf8_encode.
Are your database tables utf8_danish_ci?
Try running this mysql query in e.g. phpmyadmin.
ALTER TABLE CITATER4 CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_danish_ci;
Does HTML5 have <meta charset="utf-8"> in the head tag?
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I have some text in a database. I use French and English. French has accents, and some special characters like ç. I use Mamp, MySQL and PHP.
I have collation latin1_swedish-ci (the default). I tried utf8_general_ci and the result is the same.
If I use in a html page, I have this in the head: <meta charset="UTF-8">
As an example, in the database I have "voilà".
When I echo the text from the database to html:
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","root");
if (!$con) {
die('The connexion failed: ' . mysqli_error());
}
if (!mysqli_select_db($con, 'prova')){
echo "Connection with database was not possible";
}
$result = mysqli_query($con, "SELECT * FROM test1
WHERE id='1' ")
or die(mysqli_error());
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
$text = $row['first'];
echo $text; //I see: voil�
echo htmlentities($text); //I see nothing
echo utf8_encode($text); //This works: I see voilà
}
Why htmlentities does not work?
Is utf8_encode(); the way to go? I have to use that always when I output something from the database? Why do I have to use that if the collation is already UTF8? Is there any better way to store and output text with accents in a MySQL database?
After you connect to the DB you should set the client charset to UTF8:
mysqli_set_charset($con, "UTF8");
Otherwise the mysql client transforms the UTF8 'voilà' to latin1 ('cause it seems that is it's default).
Either you tell the client that I want everything in UTF8, or you get it with the default latin1, and convert it one-by-one yourself calling utf8_encose($text)
This question already has answers here:
UTF-8 all the way through
(13 answers)
Closed 9 years ago.
I have one php file when I get data from MySQL where I set encoding to utf8. When Im tring to get data and display it in my php file I see there is sth wrong with some characters, e.g Magia ĹwiÄt w JaseĹkach 2013-12-23.
I create all php files using utf8 encoding, but when I want to open this file from server Notepad++ showes me that there is ANSI as utf8 encoding and newline format is Macintosh.
Connecting to db
<?php
$db = new mysqli('############');
$db->query("SET NAMES utf8");
$db->query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8");
if($db->connect_error) {
$msg = "Cant connect";
} else {
$msg = "Works!";
}
?>
<?php
require '../bootstrap/bootstrap.php';
$query = $db->real_escape_string("Select id, data_dodania,tytul, zajawka From artykuly ORDER BY data_dodania DESC");
$result = $db->query($query);
$result=$result->fetch_all();
foreach($result as $row ) {
echo '<tr>';
echo '<td>';
echo '<b>';
echo $row[2];
echo "<span class='text-info'> <small class='text-right'>$row[1] </small></span>";
echo '</b>';
echo '<br />';
echo $row[3];
echo '</td>';
echo '</tr>';
}
echo '</table>';
The encoding you use on your Webpage and the encoding you have specified in the database setup. If the database connection use UTF-8 you probably should use UTF-8. There is no ANSI as UTF-8. Either you have UTF-8 or ANSI encoding.
In Notepad++ you can encode your file to UTF-8 if you go to Encoding -> Convert to UTf-8
Set this HTML-Tag to tell the browser, which encoding the browser should use for page display:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
In PHP to convert an ISO-8859-1 string, use string utf8-encode(string $data)
See here: UTF8-Encode
core.php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","mmogezgini");
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
gamelisti.php
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM games");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
?>
HTML CODES
<?php echo $row['game_name']; ?>
HTML CODES
<?php }
mysqli_close($con);
?>
i use turkish characters like "ö,ç,ğ,ı" i see these correctly in database but when i select them from database and show with php echo they looks like question mark=(?)
my encoding on database utf8_general_ci
Double check your HTML encoding.
http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.set-charset.php (just after you connect to DB: mysqli_set_charset($con, 'utf8');
Are you using prepared statements? (not related but important).
I want to echo page title from database value.
<title><?php echo $data['art_title'] ?></title>
But that language is Chinese. Title is not showing correctly. It's look like this now.
how to fix this problem? thank you.
When you saving your page choose its endoding utf-8 or another chinese supported encoding.
If you already are doing things right (writing both string in UTF-8) the problem can be Chrome/Firefox tryiing to use a font that is not unicode aware for the titles (?)... if thats the case, theres nothing you can do (report it?)
Just in case, make sure your page is correctly encoded (text in utf8, with the page declared in utf8).
UPDATE:
You could be hitting a OS/Browser bug:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=90752
I found a solution.
$sql = 'SET CHARACTER SET utf8';
here is full code
<?php
// MySQl connection
$db = mysql_connect('host', 'user', 'password');
// Select the database
mysql_select_db('db',$db);
$sql = 'SET CHARACTER SET utf8';
$result = mysql_query($sql, $db);
// SQL query
$sql = "SELECT art_title, art_meta FROM article WHERE art_id=".$_GET['art_id'];
// Send the query
$req = mysql_query($sql) or die('Error SQL !<br>'.$sql.'<br>'.mysql_error());
$data = mysql_fetch_assoc($req);
?>
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $data['art_meta']; ?>" />
<title><?php echo $data['art_title']; ?></title>
I am learning PHP programming, so I have setup testing database and try to do various things with it. So situation is like that:
Database collation is utf8_general_ci.
There is table "books" created by query
create table books
( isbn char(13) not null primary key,
author char(50),
title char(100),
price float(4,2)
);
Then it is filled with some sample data - note that text entries are in russian. This query is saved as utf-8 without BOM .sql and executed.
insert into books values
("5-8459-0046-8", "Майкл Морган", "Java 2. Руководство разработчика", 34.99),
("5-8459-1082-X", "Кристофер Негус", "Linux. Библия пользователя", 24.99),
("5-8459-1134-6", "Марина Смолина", "CorelDRAW X3. Самоучитель", 24.99),
("5-8459-0426-9", "Родерик Смит", "Сетевые средства Linux", 49.99);
When I review contents of created table via phpMyAdmin, I get correct results.
When I retrieve data from this table and try to display it via php, I get question marks instead of russian symbols. Here is piece of my php code:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Books</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
mysqli_set_charset('utf8');
# $db = new mysqli('localhost', 'login', 'password', 'database');
$query = "select * from books where ".$searchtype." like '%".$searchterm."%'";
$result = $db->query($query);
$num_results = $result->num_rows;
for ($i = 0; $i < $num_results; $i++) {
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
echo "<p><strong>".($i+1).". Title: ";
echo htmlspecialchars (stripslashes($row['title']));
echo "</strong><br />Author: ";
echo stripslashes($row['author']);
echo "<br />ISBN: ";
echo stripslashes($row['isbn']);
echo "<br />Price: ";
echo stripslashes($row['price']);
echo "</p>";
}
...
And here is the output:
1. Название: Java 2. ??????????? ????????????
Автор: ????? ??????
ISBN: 5-8459-0046-8
Цена: 34.99
Can someone point out what I am doing wrong?
Can someone point out what I am doing wrong?
Yes, I can.
You didn't tell Mysql server, what data encoding you want.
Mysql can supply any encoding in case your page encoding is different from stored data encoding. And recode it on the fly.
Thus, it needs to be told of client's preferred encoding (your PHP code being that database client).
By default it's latin1. Thus, because there is no such symbols in the latin1 character table, question marks being returned instead.
There are 2 ways to tell mysql what encoding we want:
a slightly more preferred one is mysqli_set_charset() function (method in your case).
less preferred one is SET NAMES query.
But as long as you are using mysqli extension properly, doesn't really matter. (though you aren't)
Note that in mysql this encoding is called utf8, without dashes or spaces.
Try to set output charset:
SET NAMES 'utf-8'
SET CHARACTER SET utf-8
Create .htaccess file:
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
AddCharset utf-8 *
CharsetSourceEnc utf-8
CharsetDefault utf-8
Save files in UTF-8 without BOM.
Set charset in html head.
After your mysql_connect, set your connection to UTF-8 :
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
Follow Alexander advices for .htaccess, header and files encoding
You probably need to call mysqli_set_charset('utf8'); after you set up your connection with new mysqli(...) as it works on a link rather than a global setting.
so..
# $db = new mysqli('localhost', 'login', 'password', 'database');
mysqli_set_charset($db, 'utf8');
$query = "select * from books where ".$searchtype." like '%".$searchterm."%'";
By the way, that query seems to be open to SQL-injection unless $searchterm is sanitized. Just something to keep in mind, consider using prepared statements.
And using # to suppress errors is generally not recommended, especially not during development. Better to deal with error-conditions.
after your mysql_query add
#mysql_query("SET character_set_server='utf8'; ");
#mysql_query("SET character_set_client='utf8'; ");
#mysql_query("SET character_set_results='utf8'; ");
#mysql_query("SET character_set_connection='utf8'; ");
#mysql_query("SET character_set_database='utf8'; ");
#mysql_query("SET collation_connection='utf8_general_ci'; ");
#mysql_query("SET collation_database='utf8_general_ci'; ");
#mysql_query("SET collation_server='utf8_general_ci'; ");
Try to put also in the HTML document Head the meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
this is different to the HTTP header header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");