UTF8 in MySQL and PHP

[wpb]

Hello,

 

I have a MySQL database with mainly English text, but also some Japanese. The charset of the database is set to UTF8. When I read the Japanese field data into a PHP variable and echo it to some HTML, I just get "???"s displayed. The charset of the HTML page is correctly set to UTF8, too. Is there some other setting (perhaps in PHP) that I need to set? Or do normal string variables in PHP not work with UTF8?

 

Thanks,

[BenInBlack]

in the connector object for mysqli,

 

$connConnection = new mysqli($myhost, $connUser, $connPass, $dbname);

$connConnection->set_charset("utf8");