I'm using Excel to send information to my MySQL database. That contains several 'Ø' character. My database is set to utf8_general_ci and the website to <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
When I use an text field to edit the database all 'Ø' characters are changed to '?' in the text field, how can I prevent this from happening?
Have you set the mysql connection encoding? In php you do it with mysql_set_charset("utf8").
If the data in the database is correct, then you need to ensure that the connection between your php script and the database is also UTF-8 by issuing
In mysqli do
$mysqli->set_charset("utf8")
or in mysql do
mysql_set_charset("utf8")
And ensure that your html is also set to utf-8 by adding this tag to header
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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I've got a problem with my charset I guess.
I've called out this line of code on the top of my file.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
when I try to read out an 'ë' it returns these two characters: ë .
I can't figure out what I have to do, to return the accented character.
I also found out it only happens to be when I put the accented character into <h1> tags.
Try adding this extra tag so it looks like this:
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
If the data is in a file (I guess an html file) then this may help: http://www.thedatastudio.net/character_encoding_profile.htm.
What are you reading the file with? As you suggest, I'm sure it's interpreting the file as if it were in a different character encoding.
If you are reading data from mysql database then you can use mysqli_set_charset() for mysqli or if you are using PDO you can try below code.
$dbh = new PDO('mysql:'.$conn, $username, $password);
$dbh->exec("set names utf8");
I used spanish language in my site. when iinserted the character like í,á,é,ó it will insert properly in db,but it cannot display in front-end, it display like this � in front-end
for example :
Insert name : Test teachér in database it inserted correctly but in front it display as
Test teach�r.
i used <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
also but no changes at all.
It has nothing to do with smarty.
Check db charset where you store data and set it to UTF-8 General CI
Check charset of db connection SET NAMES utf8
Check the output of script if it's in UTF you can do it with meta charset, or in headers content-type.
Content-type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
or
<meta charset="utf-8"> or <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
After these operations you should have proper output.
You can also optionally check if functions that work on strings supports UTF-8.
I want to store superscript text in mysql (sqlyog). So is it possible?how?
I added 'Game™' text but it displays 'Gameâ„¢' in mysql table. Its html output is perfect becuase I used
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
Before inserting the values you should run this
"SET NAMES utf8" to store special characters.
I'm having some trouble with my page. I have moved my site from a host provider to another one, and now i'm having some problems with non-latin characters, for text that comes from db query and for text that is in html/php file.
For text that comes from db someone suggested me to apply this after db connection:
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8");
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
and it did the trick, but, now i'm having the same problem for texts that comes from html/php files: instead of ë or ç appears �
I'm sure that should be e trick someone on the server or somewhere else on the configuration.
Hope that you can help me.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
i'm using at the header of my file.
You must have this line in your <head> section:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
Is the collation of your database where the data is stored in utf8_general_ci?
Maybe there was a problem while transfering the files.
If you are familiar with Linux, try to fix the broken files on your server with recode
(excerpt: "The Recode library converts files between character sets and usages.")
I keep getting these weird text characters when I display user submitted text. like in the following example below. Is there a way I can fox this using PHP, CSS or something so that the characters are displayed properly?
Here is the problem text.
Problems of �real fonts� on the web. The one line summary:
different browsers and different platforms do �hinting�
Here is my meta tag.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
It's an encoding problem. Make sure you send the correct encoding to the browser. If it's UTF-8, you'll do it like this:
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
Also, make sure that you store the content using the same encoding throughout the entire system. Set your database tables to utf8. If you're using MySQL, run the SET NAMES utf8 query when connecting to make sure you're running in UTF-8.
These weird characters occur when you suddenly switch encoding.
Also, some functions in PHP take a $charset parameter (e.g. htmlentities()). Make sure you pass the correct charset to that one as well.
To make sure that PHP handles your charset correctly in all cases, you can set the default_charset to utf-8 (either in php.ini or using ini_set()).
Set your page to UTF-8 encoding.
Please check with the char-set in header section.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
use this below one:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
or try this one:
htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);
Could be problem with file encoding please check that your files is correctly encoded, saved as "UTF-8 without boom", also if you are saving to database use SET NAMES UTF-8