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.
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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
I am pulling comments out of the database and have this, �, show up... how do I get rid of it? Is it because of whats in the database or how I'm showing it, I've tried using htmlspecialchars but doesn't work.
Please help
The problem lies with Character Encoding. If the character shows up fine in the database, but not on the page. Your page needs to be set to the same character encoding as the database. And vice a versa, if your page that posts to the database character encoding does not match, well it comes out weird.
I generally set my character encoding to UTF-8 for any type of posting fields, such as Comments / Posts. Most MySQL databases default to the latin charset. So you will need to modify that: http://yoonkit.blogspot.com/2006/03/mysql-charset-from-latin1-to-utf8.html
The HTML part can be done with a META tag: <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
or with PHP: header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); (must be placed before any output.)
Hopefully that gets the ball rolling for you.
That happens when you have a character that your font doesn't know how to display. It shows up differently in every program, many Windows programs show it as a box, Firefox shows it as a questionmark in a diamond, other programs just use a plain question mark.
So you can use a newer display system, install a missing font (like if it's asian characters) or look to see if it's one or two characters that do this and just replace them with something visible.
It might be problem of the way you are storing the information in the database. If the encoding you were using didn't accept accents (à, ñ, î, ç...), then it stores them using weird symbols. Same happens to other language specific symbols. There is probably not a solution for what's already in the database, but you can still save the following inserts by changing the encoding type in mysql.
Cheers
Make sure your database UTF-8 (if it won't solve the problem make sure you specify your char-set while connecting to the database).
You can also encode / decode before entering data to your database.
I would suggest to go with htmlspecialchars() for encoding and htmlspecialchars_decode() for decoding.
Are you passing your charset in mysql_set_charset() with mysql_connect() ???
As others have said, check what your database encoding is. You could try using utf8_encode() or iconv() to convert your character encoding.
Check your code for errors. That's all one can really say considering that you have given us absolutely no details as to what you're doing.
Encoding problems are usually what cause that (are you converting from integers to characters?), so, you fix it by checking if you're converting things properly.
I've made a test program that is basically just a textarea that I can enter characters into and when I click submit the characters are written to a MySQL test table (using PHP).
The test table is collation is UTF-8.
The script works fine if I want to write a é or ú to the database it writes fine. But then if I add the following meta statement to the <head> area of my page:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
...the characters start becoming scrambled.
My theory is that the server is imposing some encoding that works well, but when I add the UTF-8 directive it overrides this server encoding and that this UTF-* encoding doesn't include the characters such as é and ú.
But I thought that UTF-8 encoded all (bar Klingon etc) characters.
Basically my program works but I want to know why when I add the directive it doesn't.
I think I'm missing something.
Any help/teaching most appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Firstly, PHP generally doesn't handle the Unicode character set or UTF-8 character encoding. With the exception of (careful use of) mb_... functions, it just treats strings as binary data.
Secondly, you need to tell the MySQL client library what character set / encoding you're working with. The 'SET NAMES' SQL command does the job, and different MySQL clients (mysql, mysqli etc..) provide access to it in different ways, e.g. http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.set-charset.php
Your browser, and MySQL client, are probably both defaulting to latin1, and coincidentally matching. MySQL then knows to convert the latin1 binary data into UTF-8. When you set the browser charset/encoding to UTF-8, the MySQL client is interpreting that UTF-8 data as latin1, and incorrectly transcoding it.
So the solution is to set the MySQL client to a charset matching the input to PHP from the browser.
Note also that table collation isn't the same as table character set - collation refers to how strings are compared and sorted. Confusing stuff, hope this helps!
I have turkish character problem in mysql database when adding content with tinymce from admin panel.
Charset is:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-9"" />
How can I solve this?
Thanks in advance
Make sure the table in MySQL is also defined as having charset ISO-8859-9.
There's not enough information to say what your problem is, but in general you need the same character set in your HTML page (text/html;charset), PHP's connection to the database (mysql_set_charset), and MySQL's CREATE TABLE ... DEFAULT CHARACTER SET (if you just CREATE TABLE it will end up in Latin-1 which you probably don't want. Plus you would need to make sure not to use htmlentities-without-charset-argument on output (use htmlspecialchars instead).
See eg. this answer for more detail. That's talking about using UTF-8 for the encoding, but the same applies if you substitute ISO-8859-9 all the way through. (Although unless there's a good reason not to, you should really be using UTF-8.)
well I had a similar problem with my turkish site.
My tables were in latin5_turkish_ci an the charset of the php page were latin5
there was no problem when I submitted the content via php to database, all characters were being saved correctly
but when I tried to submit the content via jquery post method then any turkish character was being saved correctly to database
and php iconv function solved my problem
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');