names are stored in mysql with utf8_unicode_ci.
i get the names from the db with a simple sql request and echo them in a table.
Julián echoes like Julián. Can I run the $name variable through some command to unscramble it, or modify my sql request? it's a simple SELECT name FROM table now.
Check the db connection string, ensure that you have specified the charset utf-8 in your connection string.
And the html encoding charset should also be specified, such as follow:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
Tip: Data addition page, check the encoding of the browser. For example if it's Firefox,
Menu -> View -> Character Encoding
Should have been auto detected as Unicode (UTF-8)
execute this query:
"set names 'utf8'" on mysql database
before you execute
"SELECT name FROM table"
It should work! :)
Related
I included this at the top of my php file:
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
?>
I did this because my file.php was not displaying "á, é, í, ó, ú or ¿" in the html file or from data queried from my database.
After I placed the 'header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');' line of code my html page started to understand the special characters in the html file but, data received from my database now has a black rhombus with a question mark.
The collation my database has is "utf8_spanish_ci"
at the html tag i tried to put lang=es but this never worked I also tried to put the meta tag inside the head tag
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=es>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<head>
I also tried:
<meta charset="utf-8">
and:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
I don't know what the problem is. When I insert data directly into the data base the special characters are there but when I insert them from my file.php they appear with random characters.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
There are a couple of reasons this could be happening. It is however important that your entire line of code uses the same set of charset, and that all functions that can be set to a specific charset, is set to the same. The most widely used one is UTF-8, which is the one I'm suggesting you use.
Connection
You also need to specify the charset in the connection itself.
PDO (specified in the object itself):
$handler = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=database;charset=utf8', 'username', 'password', array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET CHARACTER SET UTF8"));
MySQLi: (placed directly after creating the connection)
* For OOP: $mysqli->set_charset("utf8");
* For procedural: mysqli_set_charset($mysqli, "utf8");
(where $mysqli is the MySQLi connection)
MySQL (depricated, you should convert to PDO or MySQLi): (placed directly after creating the connection)
mysql_set_charset("utf8");
Database
Your database and all its tables has to be set to UTF-8. Note that charset is not the same as collation.
You can do that by running the queries below once for each database and tables (for example in phpMyAdmin)
ALTER DATABASE databasename CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
File-encoding
It's also important that the .php file itself is UTF-8 encoded. If you're using Notepad++ to write your code, this can be done in the "Format" drop-down on the taskbar (Convert to UFT-8 w/o BOM). You should use UTF-8 w/o BOM.
Should you follow all of the pointers above, chances are your problem will be solved. If not, you can take a look at this StackOverflow post: UTF-8 all the way through.
Are you sure? And are you sure that you are retrieving your data from the data base? Having said that, most databases require you to save data in a way that is NOT exactly like your question. There is really valid security reasons for this.
You should use utf8_general_ci as a database encoding also before insert query you should run this query
Mysql_query(" SET NAMES 'utf8'");
I am trying to print data from MySql database.
I have a simple problem it is showing D�lar instead of Dólar .
Although I have included
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" Content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
In my html page so can any one help me out with this
Thanks in Advance
The character set needs to be defined in a few different places:
The MySQL database
The text stored in the database might not be encoded as UTF-8. You can define a default character set as part of the create database statement:
CREATE DATABASE mydb CHARACTER SET utf8;
You can also specify per-column character sets with create table.
Within your PHP code
You'll need to tell your client-side code which encoding it should use when communicating with the database.
If you're using PDO, you can specify the character set as part of the DSN string:
$dsn = 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb;charset=utf8';
$dbh = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password);
If you're using MySQLi, you can use the mysqli_set_charset() function/method:
$dbh->set_charset('utf8');
or:
mysqli_set_charset($dbh, 'utf8');
Alternatively, the MySQL website suggests issuing a statement after connecting to the server:
SET NAMES 'utf8';
Within the HTML output
For HTML5, you can simply add the following <meta> tag within the <head> element of your output:
<meta charset="utf-8">
I've used bellow function and its working for me
call_user_func_array('mb_convert_encoding', array(&$str,'HTML-ENTITIES','UTF-8'));
I have problem with German characters on my web site,
in html/php part of website i have this code to set utf-8:
<meta charset="utf-8">
in mysql, i have this code to set utf-8
SET CHARSET 'utf8';
Here is some word on German: Gemäß
Here is how that word looks in mysql table:
Gemäß
Here is how that word is shown on the site: Gemäß
What is a problem? Thanks.
I was using this code to get title:
$title = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($_POST['title']));
I just override that to
$title = $_POST['title'];
At first, make sure, that you have UTF-8 characters in your database.
After that, try using SET NAMES 'UTF8' after connecting to MySQL:
$con=mysqli_connect("host", "user", "pw", "db");
if (!$con)
{
die('Failed to connect to mySQL: ' .mysqli_connect_errno());
}
mysqli_query($con, "SET NAMES 'UTF8'") or die("ERROR: ". mysqli_error($con));
As the manual says:
SET NAMES indicates what character set the client will use to send SQL
statements to the server... It also specifies the character set that the server should
use for sending results back to the client.
Try SET NAMES 'utf8' or SET NAMES 'utf-8'. Some of these works fine for portuguese, probably for german too. I just can't remember which one is correct, but if it is not, an error will be produced.
you should make sure that the CONNECTION is also utf-8.
with mysqli this is done with something like this:
$connection = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass, $db_name);
$connection->set_charset("utf8");
Now if somehow you ended up with wrong characters in the database there is a way to make it right:
in a PHP script, retrieve the information as you do now, i.e without setting the connection. This way the mistake will be inverted and corrected and in your php file you will have the characters in the correct utf-8 format.
in a PHP script, write back the information with setting the connection to utf-8
at this point you should see the character correct in your database
now change all your read/write functions of your site to use the utf-8 from now on
in HTML5 use
<meta charset="utf-8">
in HTML 4.0.1 use
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
the results are html entity encoded as if they were processed by htmlentities(), I wonder if your variables are ibserted as received from the form or are being processed by say a wysiwg editor for instance?
Anyway, these should print fine on an html template but an html_entity_decode() should do it to.
Hope this helps
Set the data type in your database to use UTF-8 as well, this should solve the problem.
I had the same problem. which I solved by using:
if you have already created your table, you need the modify the character set as:
alter table <table name> convert to character set utf8 collate utf8_general_ci.
your tables character set is set to latin_swedish by default by MySQL.
also, you might face some problems while retrieving the data and displaying it to you page.For that include: mysql_set_charset('utf8') just below the line where you have connected your database.
eg:
mysql_connect('localhost','root','');
mysql_select_db('my db');
mysql_set_charset('utf8');
You will need to do this for php 5.x
$yourNiceLookingString =
htmlspecialchars ($YourStringFromDB, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, 'ISO-8859-1');
and for php 4.x
$yourNiceLookingString = htmlspecialchars($YourStringFromDB);
I'm trying to save French accents in my database, but they aren't saved like they should in the DB.For example, a "é" is saved as "é".I've tried to set my files to "Unicode (utf-8)", the fields in the DB are "utf8_general_ci" as well as the DB itself.When I look at my data posted through AJAX with Firebug, I see the accent passed as "é", so it's correct.Thanks and let me know you need more info!
Personally I solved the same issue by adding after the MySQL connection code:
mysql_set_charset("utf8");
or for mysqli:
mysqli_set_charset($conn, "utf8");
or the mysqli OOP equivalent:
$conn->set_charset("utf8");
And sometimes you'll have to define the main php charset by adding this code:
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
On the client HTML side you have to add the following header data :
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
In order to use JSON AJAX results (e.g. by using jQuery), you should define the header by adding :
header("Content-type: application/json;charset=utf8");
json_encode(
some_data
);
This should do the trick
The best bet is that your database connection is not UTF-8 encoded - it is usually ISO-8859-1 by default.
Try sending a query
SET NAMES utf8;
after making the connection.
mysqli_set_charset($conn, "utf8");
if you use PDO, you must instanciate like that :
new \PDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$schema", $username, $password, array(\PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8') );
Use UTF8:
Set a meta in your
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
When you connect to your mySQL DB, force encoding so you DONT have to play with your mysql settings
$conn = mysql_connect('server', 'user', 'password') or die('Could not connect to mysql server.');
mysql_select_db('mydb') or die('Could not select database.');
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$conn); //THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART
If you use AJAX, set you encoding like this:
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
Have you reviewed http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-unicode.html:
Client applications that need to
communicate with the server using
Unicode should set the client
character set accordingly; for
example, by issuing a SET NAMES 'utf8'
statement. ucs2 cannot be used as a
client character set, which means that
it does not work for SET NAMES or SET
CHARACTER SET. (See Section 9.1.4,
“Connection Character Sets and
Collations”.)
Further to that:
if you get data via php from your
mysql-db (everything utf-8) but still
get '?' for some special characters in
your browser (), try this:
after mysql_connect() , and
mysql_select_db() add this lines:
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
worked for me. i tried first with the
utf8_encode, but this only worked for
äüöéè... and so on, but not for
kyrillic and other chars.
You need to a) make sure your tables are using a character encoding that can encode such characters (UTF-8 tends to be the go-to encoding these days) and b) make sure that your form submissions are being sent to the database in the same character encoding. You do this by saving your HTML/PHP/whatever files as UTF-8, and by including a meta tag in the head that tells the browser to use UTF-8 encoding.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
Oh, and don't forget C, when connecting to the database, make sure you're actually using the correct character set by executing a SET NAMES charset=utf8 (might not be the correct syntax, I'll have to look up what it should be, but it will be along those lines)
PHP(.net) advises against setting charsets after connecting using a query like SET NAMES utf8 because your functionality for escaping data inside MySQL statements might not work as intended.
Do not use SET NAMES utf8 but use the appropriate ..._set_charset() function (or method) instead, in case you are using PHP.
Ok I have found a working solution for me :
Run this mysql command
show variables like 'char%';
Here you have many variables : "character_set_server", "character_set_system" etc.
In my case I have "é" for "é" in database and I want to show "é" on my website.
To work I have to change "character_set_server" value from "utf8mb4" to "latin1".
All my correct value are :
And other values are :
With theses values the wrong database accent are corrected and well displayed by the server.
But each case can be different.
i have a proble, when insert something in foreign language into database.
i have set the collation of database to utf8_general_ci(try utf8_unicod_ci too).
but when i insert some text into table, it was saved like this
Õ€Õ¡ÕµÕ¥Ö€Õ¥Õ¶ Ô±Õ¶Õ¸Ö‚Õ¶
but when i read from database, text shows in correct form. it looks like that only in database.
i have set encoding in my html document to charset=UTF-8
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
and i set
mysql_query("SET NAMES UTF-8");
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET UTF-8");
when conecting to database.
so i think that i' ve done everything, but it still save in that anknown format.
could you help me.
thanks in advance
I believe you have to SET NAMES utf8, instead of UTF-8, in MySQL.
It looks like maybe your phpmyadmin isn't using the correct charset. In your phpmyadmin folder, open config.default.php and edit the lines
$cfg['DefaultCharset'] = 'iso-8859-1';
$cfg['DefaultLang'] = 'en-iso-8859-1';
To your chosen encoding.
It is suggested to use mysql_set_charset() instead of "SET NAMES" query, however the impact should be the same.