fael097 Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 hi, I'm making a website, in portuguese, and i'm trying to retrieve characters with accent signals such as é ê á etc. while when I directly type words with such characters directly in my HTML, it displays correctly (i'm using utf-, if i save the same words into a mysql DB, and echo them out with php, they will appear with missing characters, you know, the "?" inside a square. im clueless. any help is appreciated. thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fael097 Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 I made a simple test for debugging, heres my code: (I typed "ácéntôão" e "tôrrãodeaçúcar" directly on html for testing, those are exactly the same words I've put on my database.) <?php session_start(); $host_db="localhost"; $name_db="test"; $login_db="root"; $pass_db="123456"; $conn_db=mysql_connect($host_db, $login_db, $pass_db)or die("Could not connect. ".mysql_error()); $select_db=mysql_select_db($name_db, $conn_db)or die("Could not select database. ".mysql_error()); ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> ácéntôão<br /> tôrrãodeaçúcar<br /> <?php $sql="SELECT * FROM test ORDER BY id LIMIT 3"; $result=mysql_query($sql); if(mysql_num_rows($result)) { while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result)) { echo $row[1]."<br />"; } } ?> </body> </html> my result: ácéntôão tôrrãodeaçúcar �c�nt��o t�rr�odea��car words in HTML appear exactly as I typed them, but the ones coming from DB appear with those unknown characters. what to do? i tried everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Then your PHP headers aren't correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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