webpage displays Japenese characters in MySQL as ???????

[webguync]

Hi, I have some data in MySQL set to Collation UTF_general_ci. This data is japanese characters and in my PHP page which displays the MYSQL data the data displays as ?????

 

I did some research and added the following to my HTML code, but wasn't sure if there was anything else I needed to do PHP wise.

 

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); 
?>

 

 

[bundyxc]

Does it produce an error?

[webguync]

no, no error, bit where the Japanese characters should be displaying I am getting question marks (????????, ????????)

[webguync]

I read in another forum to try this, but I get errors when trying.

 

$rpcQuery("SET NAMES 'utf8'", $db); 

 

the errors are:

 

Notice: Undefined variable: rpcQuery in path_to_file on line 8

 

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: () in path_to_file on line 8

[play_]

This may help

http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?52,164919,165632#msg-165632