problems with "SET NAMES 'utf8'" not working in select list for non latin

[dflow]

im using

<?php mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'")?>

 

i want the select list to show country names in  hebrew for example on this page:

<?php require_once('../Connections/international.php'); ?>
<?php $CatID=intval($_GET['CatID']);
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8') ;
?>
<?php mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'")?>

<?php
#### Roshan's Ajax dropdown code with php
#### Copyright reserved to Roshan Bhattarai - nepaliboy007@yahoo.com

?>


<?php


$dbconnection = mysql_connect ("localhost", "root", "") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("international", $dbconnection) or die("Couldn't open database: ".mysql_error());


if (isset($CatID)) {
    
}
switch ($CatID)
{

   case 0:
   $result = mysql_query("SELECT country_list.CountryID,country_list.CountryName,country_list.CountryName_heb from country_list WHERE CategoryID = '".$_GET['CatID']."'");
break;

    case 1:
$result = mysql_query("SELECT country_list.CountryID,country_list.CountryName,country_list.CountryName_heb from country_list WHERE CategoryID = '".$_GET['CatID']."'");

        break;
    case 2:
        $result = mysql_query("SELECT country_list.CountryID,country_list.CountryName,country_list.CountryName_heb from country_list WHERE CatID2 = '".$_GET['CatID']."'");
        break;
case 3:
        $result = mysql_query("SELECT country_list.CountryID,country_list.CountryName,country_list.CountryName_heb from country_list WHERE CatID3 = '".$_GET['CatID']."'");
        break;
case 4:
        $result = mysql_query("SELECT country_list.CountryID,country_list.CountryName,country_list.CountryName_heb from country_list WHERE CatID4 = '".$_GET['CatID']."'");
        break;
case 5:
        $result = mysql_query("SELECT country_list.CountryID,country_list.CountryName,country_list.CountryName_heb from country_list WHERE CatID5 = '".$_GET['CatID']."'");
        break;

}   	

$row_result = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$totalRows_result = mysql_num_rows($result);

?>




<select name="state" onchange="getCity(<?php echo $CatID;?>,this.value)" width="220px">
<option>בחרו</option>
<?php while($row_result=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { ?>

<option value="<?php echo  $row_result['CountryID']; ?>"><?php echo $row_result['CountryName_heb']; ?></option>
<?php } ?>
</select>

<?php
mysql_free_result($result);
?>

[premiso]

Well for one, you are not connecting to the Database first. You are connecting after. If you were to have:

 

<?php mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'") or trigger_error("Query Failed (UTF8): " . mysql_error()); ?>

 

It would probably tell you as such. Put that after you make the connection and select the database and it should work. If that is not what you are after, please elaborate on how it is not working.