Well I have created a page in Dreamweaver where I use phpMyAdmin as a database.
My page can read Swedish letters which are written in Dreamweaver without any problems but when it retrieves data from the database (phpMyAdmin), it gets wrong. Instead of the Swedish letters it says �.
I have encoded with utf- 8
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Also the file is saved as utf-8 and I'm using Google Chrome which uses utf 8.
I've heard that I have to encode the connection with the database with utf-8 also, but I don't know how to do that?
As far as I know the way I connect is by:
<?php require_once('Connections/Audiologiska.php'); ?>
Grateful for answers!
Don't forget set charset after connecting to db php mysql charset. Also check if columns has right charset.
On the connection file/class normally i put:
SET NAMES utf8;
And for the database collation i choose utf8_general_ci
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My database has collation utf8-general-ci [I also tried greek-general-ci with worse results].
When I insert a row with Greek values directly through phpMyAdmin, it appears on my html page like this: '??????'.
When I insert a row through my html form, it appears correctly on the html-outcome page, but on phpMyAdmin it looks like this: 'ΜαÏία'.
I can deal with that, since I'm only doing this for a university project, so I can just insert all rows through my html form, but I'm really curious why this is happening.
On my html files I have
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
and when I had header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); on my php files it messed seriously with my pages so I must not include it. Also tried including $mysqli->set_charset("utf8"); but only errors appeared.
I have also checked Greek characters encoding works in HTML but not in PHP but we don't have the same problem. Should I change the httpd.conf file however?
First of all check your table's collation. It's not linked to database collation.
Your table collation should be utf8-general-ci too.
<? header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
$mysqli->set_charset("utf8"); ?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
When all these four settings are active;
You should able to insert, update or read UTF-8 INSERTED data successfully
My guess is your problem occured because your old data is not utf-8 encoded.
You should create a batch script;
which selects all data from table
convert it to utf-8 using mb_convert_encoding
and updated old data
to fix your data.
 is being inserted from textareas with empty space at beginning into MySQL table, despite having the database and table set to collation of utf8_general_ci.
I have <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> in the head of the page doing the inserts. I haven't experienced this problem with other databases/tables on the same MySQL installation, and these are set to the default collation of latin1_swedish_ci.
I can resolve the issue with mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'"); after the MySQL connection is established, however I'd like to know why this happens despite setting the table to utf-8 and having the charset to utf-8 in the page.
You need to properly initialize the connection with utf8 unless you can set a default somehow, which means SET NAMES is mandatory.
If you're using some 1990s style mysql_query based application that opens and closes connections at random points in your code base, without any proper framework, you might have a hard time tracking these all down.
your php/html file/s should have utf-8 encoding. your mysql database and table/s as well collation utf-8. however, you can try then to make test inserts from your php file not with submitted html-form-data just to see if it's a php or a html/form/browser problem.
I didn't notice it before, but the textareas contained Removing that fixes the issue and I don't need to use mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
In districts table
I have a row as
district_id district_name country_id
15 Šahty 16
While selecting from php and displaying in browser,it shows like this :�ahty
I am using mssql 2005 with collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.
The problem is something like this
removing accent and special characters
but i need the solution in php.
UPDATE(?):
There is no support for UTF-8 in sqlserver.
https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/7346/mssql-2005-2008-utf-8-collation-charset
Hi you need to consider correct HTML content type header
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Data may be selected correctly, but browser may be can not displayed them as you expected.
You can play with this in firefox by Menu View -> Character encoding -> until you find correct one
In order to make special characters work, a general rule is that all the components must be on the same encoding. This means that database, database connection (very often forgotten 'SET NAMES {charset}' call after connecting to database) and web page Content-type have to be all in the same character set.
If you ask data from latin1 database and have database connection also has latin1, make sure the page you display values at is also latin1.
It's recommended though to use UTF-8 instead of latin1 everywhere, so if possible I recommending changing charsets and data in your database all to UTF-8, as it's more compatible all-around and easier to handle.
Just remove the UTF8 charset and let the browser select the charset it will set to ISO-8859-1 that will work with accents in sql server
Whenever I put ñ in a mysql row... it $_POST's it as a strange triangular ? symbol...
Anyone know what the problem is?
First thing is to check if your mysql column is has the correct encoding (utf8 probably).
Then you may need to enable utf8 when connecting to mysql, at least that's what I must do in Perl.
This link might help http://dreweyscorner.blogspot.com/2008/01/enable-utf-8-on-php-mysql-and-apache.html
It's a mismatch between the encoding used to store the accented character in the database and the charset used by the page that displays it. The text was probably stored as ISO-8859-1 (Western European), but is being displayed as Unicode (UTF-8).
Make sure that the insert form and the display page both use the same encoding. These days, both should have the following tag in the of the page:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Unless you're using an obsolete version of MySQL (such as 3.23), it should support UTF-8 encoding by default.
Recently I worked in a project in where I need to display japanese text which are come from database. I already use
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"
It help to display the static text. But when it come from database it display "??????????" type text.
How can I solve this kind of problem?
Is the database charset UTF8 too? Is the connection charset UTF8? Seems like the data gets converted to ISO-8859-1 somewhere along the way.
Without more information, it is hard to find exactly what the problem is. What DBMS are you using? MySQL? PostgreSQL? Either way, I'm pretty sure either your database and/or your connection isn't using UTF8.
You can change your connection charset by using one of the following functions:
mysql_set_charset('UTF-8');
pg_set_client_encoding('UTF-8');