Problem With Accents In Mysql

[Guest]

I'm trying to add text into a mysql field containing french accents

 

"é" will end up as "é"

 

How can i fix that ?

 

My sql field is already set to utf8 and i'm running utf8_encode() on the value i'm adding to SQL... what's wrong ?

 

Thanks

[requinix]

You're not outputting UTF-8. Well, technically yes you are, but whatever's displaying the characters doesn't think they're UTF-8.

 

For PHP send another header:

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

(or any other text/* type)

 

For HTML:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

(same as the header above)

 

For XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

 

 

Though it could be you're doubly-encoding the stuff. Remove the call to utf8_encode() and see if that fixes it. But the above changes are still important so make sure something like them is in place.

[Guest]

Well when i look in phpmyadmin the accents aren't correctly displayed

"é" are displayed as "é" in the database

 

so i don't think the problem is about output... I also have other strings with accents on the same page and they are correctly displayed. I only have a problem with accents coming from SQL.

 

I also tryed without utf8_encode()

[requinix]

What encoding are your databases/tables in? Those need to be UTF-8 too. You may need to send a

SET NAMES utf8

when you first open your database connection too.