dsdsdsdsd Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 hello ... I have a table with european characters in it. when I query the table and echo the result to html, I get strange results. in the attached image you can see the special character in the db ( on the left ) that gets converted ( on the right ). my table is set to collation = utf8_general_ci and the column in question = utf8_general_ci my php script calls: mysql_set_charset( 'utf8' , $my_db_connection ) ; any thoughts? [attachment deleted by admin] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bh Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Hi, Is your php file also in UTF-8? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsdsdsdsd Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 to be honest I don't know ... didn't know php files could have a collation setting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsdsdsdsd Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 bingo... added: <meta http-equiv = 'Content-Type' content = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' " > this particular script was not intended as a public webpage, but rather just as a dashboard for me, and so I did not have <html/head/metas> in there. thanks, Shannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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