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
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Searching high & low for a solution. I've tried many variations before posting the question.
What is required to have names appear the same in phpMyAdmin and html page? Can this even be accomplished?
EDIT 1: It would seem that this is a mysql issue. Why? Because the php generated html page will always show the correct characters. At this point it is only the database that shows incorrectly.
EDIT 2: Clarification. With the original settings shown in code snip and images below,
Enter João and submit
João displayed in database
João display after reload
Adding the mysqli_query ( $link, 'SET NAMES utf8' )
Enter João and submit
João displayed in database
Jo�o displayed after reload
end Edit 2
In a mysql database, viewed with phpMyAdmin:
The items appear in the database like this: (I've modified the first João to appear correct in database)
And in the html page with encoding set the names appear like (order is reversed & modified has black diamond),
Encoding: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
I have tried changing the column collation to utf8_bin, utf8_general_ci, utf8_unicode_ci, all with no change to either side. Also changed the document (BBEdit) from UTF-8 to UTF-8 (with BOM), ISO Latin 1 and Windows Latin 1. Several of these created more black diamonds, making the issue worse. (Set to UTF-8 in images) I even tried to preg_replace ã, é etc with the encoded equivalents.
The short story is, João is entered on the page (content type above), João is in database, and João comes to the html page on refresh.
Looking for ideas. Thanks.
Character set issues are often really tricky to figure out. Basically, you need to make sure that all of the following are true:
The DB connection is using UTF-8
The DB tables are using UTF-8
The individual columns in the DB tables are using UTF-8
The data is actually stored properly in the UTF-8 encoding inside the database (often not the case if you've imported from bad sources, or changed table or column collations)
The web page is requesting UTF-8
Apache is serving UTF-8
Here's a good tutorial on dealing with that list, from start to finish: https://web.archive.org/web/20110303024445/http://www.bluebox.net/news/2009/07/mysql_encoding/
It sounds like your problem is specifically that you've got double-encoded (or triple-encoded) characters, probably from changing character sets or importing already-encoded data with the wrong charset. There's a whole section on fixing that in the above tutorial.
make sure your DB connection is using UTF-8 as well. Try putting the below line on top of your page,
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
Default PHP hates UTF8. Make sure that you're using mbstring functions rather than the usual built-in string functions.
Make sure that your html page, along with the scripts participated in the AJAX data exchange are being served with a proper HTTP headers including
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
As html-side encoding settings might be just ignored by browsers
I have built a CMS that allows HTML to be stored in a database. It all started off very simple. I displayed the HTML in a textarea using htmlspecialchars to prevent it from breaking the form. Then saved it back using html_specialchars_decode. It all seemed to work fine until someone pasted some HTML into the system instead of typing. At this point it stored fine but lost most of the whitespace which meant all the lovely indentation had to be done from scratch.
To fix it, I tried specifying everything in utf-8 encoding because any attempt to fiddle with it seemed to produce invalid characters.
I specify utf-8 in the PHP header
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
I specify utf-8 in my HTML page
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
I specify utf-8 in the HTML form
<form accept-charset="utf-8"
Then I read the posted value (basically) like this:
$Val = $_POST[$SafeFieldName];
My understanding was that PHP did everything in utf-8 so I am a bit surprised at this stage that I get gobbledegook - unless I now do this:
$Val = utf8_decode($Val);
So, at this stage - it works - sort of. I loose all my lovely indentation but not all of my white space. It's as if there are some non utf8 chars being stripped out. Weirdly I'm using Chrome but in Firefox, it seems fine
I think I'm just tying myself in knots now. Any elegant suggestions? I need to get to the bottom of this as opposed to just hack it to get it to work.
The connection to the DB and the DB tables itself should support UTF-8. Make sure that your table's collation is utf8_general_ci and that all string fields within the table also have the utf8_general_ci collation.
The DB connection should be UTF-8 as well:
mysql_set_charset('utf8');
See http://akrabat.com/php/utf8-php-and-mysql/ for more info.
Update: some report that
mysql_query('SET NAMES utf8');
is required sometimes as well!
If making your tables and connection UTF-8 is not possible, you could of course save the HTML as BASE64 encoded data, and decode it back when you retrieve it from the DB again.
Check your DataBase connection encodin, and check DataBase table field encoding where you store HTML.
Maybe there encoding is different from UTF-8
If this is an issue in and out of MySQL (as you suggested in the title) then you need to make sure the columns and tables are UTF8-BIN and put mysql_set_charset('utf8'); after opening the connection to MySQL.
Sorted - and the answer is really embarrassing - but you never know, some day someone may need this :)
I noticed that it worked differently (but still fairly rubbish) in Firefox so I had a look at my style sheet and found this:
white-space: nowrap;
Someone (me) must have put that in there to try to get horizontal scrolling working in some browser. Without that, the HTML makes it all the way to the DB and back again.
My only other question was why did I need this since the whole thing should have been arriving in utf8
$Val = utf8_decode($Val);
Magically - now I don't need it.
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.
Our website was developed with a meta tag set to...
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
This works fine for M-dashes and special quotes, etc. However, I have an issue when data has been entered into a CMS component that stores data in MySQL. The MySQL collation is set to UTF8_swedish_ci (I read this is ok and must have been a default when it was set up in phpMySqlAdmin).
The problem I now get is when I output info from the DB to the page, the characters are
utf8 encoded, so I run them through the uft8_decode() php function. I thought this would fix the incompatibility, but what I'm getting isn't what I expect.
When I look at the data in the DB in a text field (again through phpMySqlAdmin) it looks like this...
This – That
When I view it on the screen it looks like...
This ? That
I know I can try to find/replace a bunch of these in the DB or the text, but I'm hoping there's an easier way to do this programatically.
Thanks,
Don
Update:
Still have an issue that htmlentities() unfortunately doesn't fix.
I have text in a file like this: we’ve (special '). My MySQL collation is "latin1_swedish_ci" (the default). If I change the header or meta to either iso/utf one or the other breaks. W/ utf-8 the (’) a black diamond but the db content is fine. With iso, the inline content is ok, but the content from the db has all kinds of  and other chars. Tried changing MySQL collation to utf-8 but didn't see a difference.
I'm about resolved to changing the items manually. Thanks for any other suggestions.
If your data in the database is UTF8, you'll need to run this query after you connect to MySQL:
SET NAMES UTF8
Assuming that you were able to set the encoding properly in your database, my recommended approach here is to:
Make sure that the Content-Type header has been set properly by the
server. This can be done in php by using the header function.
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');
Note that this takes precedence and is the easiest information to get since user agents do not have to parse it.
Set the meta tag in the HTML file.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
For further readings, refer to:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/articles/askw3c/dec2002/
My guess would be that despite you meta tag, the web server sends a header which sets the charset to UTF-8. However, the easiest way to fix these kinds of problems is usually to escape non-ASCII-characters to HTML entities.
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');