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When i insert entries into the database form a textbox, i use mysql_real_escape_string(); and then when i display the information i use htmlspecialchars();
I use UTF-8 as the charset. We are using HTML5 formatting. The collation for the database was by default set to latin1_swedish_ci, so i used that. For all the tables its set to latin1_swedish_ci. For all the fields in the table we use utf8_general_ci.
As an example, this is how it looks when its shown:
�Who are you?� he asked his iPhone. �I am a humble
personal assistant,� the device replied, bringing the biggest...
How do i fix this?
Your problem is the collation setting, make sure it is one of the utf8 ones (like utf8_general_ci) for database, tables and text fields.
Furthermore make sure that you are setting your connection charset to UTF-8 as well :
SET NAMES utf8;
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I have a problem with varchar elements stored in a database.
In order to be printed in the correct way they have been stored in a strange collapse that i can not understand, see this example:
Data Stored incorrectly
You can notice that €™ in the strings. It should be an "è". Same things happen for ' and for "à". How can i change the character set of the database in order to display properly the varchar elements?
Currently settings are:
Storage engine: MyISAM
Collation: latin1_swedish_ci
Thank you very much. I really need help. I tried a lot of collations but nothing seems to work.
As far as I know, collation is for ordering and comparison, not recording.
You might be looking for encoding instead as it is responsible for the characters itself.
I believe that your issue is that you have the wrong encoding. Before you you set it to UTF8, please change your collation to utf8_unicode_ci.
Please attempt to run this:
SET NAMES utf8;
That should resolve your issue for new records. The old ones will remain untouched.
I have a confusing problem with php and css.
I created a database in phpmyadmin. All fields collation is utf8_general_ci. Also my table and database use the same collation as the fields. I tried every way to store data in database like using VALUES (N'content').
the most confusing problem is when I insert data using php my admin it shows at the webpage with question marks. When I store with PHP with the same SQL code it shows fine at the webpage but in the database strings shows like this:
تست Ùارسی
I really tried everything, can anyone help me through this problem?
utf8_general_ci isn't a character set, it's a collation. The collation determines how MySQL will decide how to order things when you ask it to sort alphabetically, it doesn't set the actual charset. Look at the table and the database character set, it should be UTF8 or UTF8MB4. If it's not then you've got a character set mismatch.
I am having a big problem with character encoding accross my domains. The big thing for me really is that I don't understand it. I set all my websites to be utf-8 using the meta tag:
<meta charset="UTF-8">
Which seemed to have solved a few problems a while back. Now I am seeing problems with between the website and the database, when a user enters their first or last name, and it has an accent in it, it doesnt display correctly. However I ran the following test.
I created a test table called 'test' (imaginative I know)
I wrote a very tiny script to take the value from a text box and put it into this table and then display the contents of this table each time this page displays, so I could see what is going on.
Here are some screen shots, first, from the output of the page:
And then a screenshot of the database itself:
So the type of column first is VARCHAR(50), I just left the settings as I would do normally, and the character encoding was latin_swedish1 or something. After id 4, I changed it utf8_bin, but that still didnt make a difference.
The problem is, the data still display okay on the website, but looks terrible in the database. Is that a problem, is this how it should be done? I think the problems I the users are complaining about are when it is put into emails and PDFs etc, which I don't think I set character encoding on.
Any help and advice would be greatly welcomed.
Make sure to have the charset is utf8 when you created the table.
create table my_table (
id int primary key,
.....
) engine=innodb charset=utf8;
and make sure that your connection is setting the charset for utf8. it depends on each framework you're using.
You can set internal character to utf-8 /* Set internal character encoding to UTF-8 */
mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8"); check http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-internal-encoding.php
Try to use utf8_general_ci. This will solve troubles.
When the3 column type was assigned, how was it assigned? I would ensure that it was along the lines of VARCHAR(n) CHARSET utf8 as that would make your column type correct for the UTF8 standard, more normally I see the UCS2 (VARCHAR(n) CHARSET ucs2) which can then cause problems later down the line.
you can set this using NVARCHAR ( see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-national.html) since sql 5.
To change the type of a column on its own you can use this type of command:
Alter table tablenamehere MODIFY columnidhere newdatatypehere;
for example
Alter table mytabelforphp MODIFY oldvarcharcolumnId nvarchar(1024);
Let me know if you need more info:)
also add your character encoding to database connection
if you have mysqli connection use :
mysqli::set_charset
if you use PDO follow this:
PDO_MYSQL DSN
Please any one help me how to avoid these kind of characters â„¢ store into mysql table in php.
Thanks
To avoid these characters you should run on the active MySQL connection the query SET NAMES utf8 and also change the Charsets of the column to one that handles the characters correctly.
More Info https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-charsets.html.
Also be aware that that the text might be correctly stored and the problem might appear when you are displaying the page. If so you should add the charset meta tag as described here http://www.w3schools.com/TAgs/att_meta_charset.asp
I have well known but quite difficult to sort out problem here. And yes I was searching on forum but those threads are old enough so I decided to create new post.
So I built a website using WP and included html FORM in one page. When user fills the form (in his/her language) the values of the fields' go into MySQL database table reg_form.
Everything works, the values are saved, BUT some characters (specific in that language) are not recognized. I tried a lot of different methods to solve this, but nothing can help.
The strangest thing is that if you look at WordPress tables you can find those specific characters are recognizable but not in reg_form table which I created.
I was trying to solve this problem and finally I decided to approach in somehow ridiculous way. I created NEW database, new tables, installed new wordpress, created new form etc.
That‘s what I was doing:
I used this suggestion first:
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2009/08/31/solving-php-mysql-utf-8-issues/
Yes, my files are saved using UTF8 encoding (without BOM). Yes, meta tags are ok. Yes, the FORM uses accept-charset='UTF-8'. Yes, all tables in database use UTF8. Yes, server, database and tables collation is the same “utf8_general_ci”.
Then I tried to insert in my code this:
$conn = mysql_connect($server, $username, $password);
mysql_set_charset("UTF8", $conn);
Then I tried this suggestion
link here: akrabat.com/php/utf8-php-and-mysql/
Then I tried to set Apache's AddDefaultCharset in .htaccess file using this link here: httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#AddDefaultCharset
BUT… still the problem remains. I can’t see those specific characters properly – only weird hieroglyphic.
The problem you face has to do with a little specific detail in database character encoding settings and Wordpress.
While Wordpress has a general character encoding setting that normally takes care about database tables as well, it does not care about the default character encoding setting of the database those tables are in.
So when your plugin/code adds a database table your own, you need to take care about the encoding settings as well - because by default they will be the database default you create the table in, which most likely is latin-1 which does not work well for your language.
To set the default character set for the database (replace "wpdb" with your database name if it varies):
ALTER DATABASE wpdb CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
To change the character set for your existing table *"reg_form"*:
ALTER TABLE reg_form CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET charset_name;
Note: Backup your database first.
HOLLY SHIT!! FINALLY! : ))))))))
The problem was that I was using mysqli_ queries. Now I tried to change to mysql_ (notice the change!) queries and it worked!! Two weeks of haaaaard working and researches... Phew!
Now who can explain me properly the reasons of this phenomena? : ))