On Sunday, September 23, 2007 5:40 AM Bil Corry said: > Mahir wrote on 9/21/2007 11:02 PM: >> the datatype collaboration is utf8_unicode_ci in mysql. it retrieves >> value as ?????? > > I'm guessing you mean the UTF-8 replacement character " ":
It's probably showing up as questions marks. I had this same problem. BUT... > <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.htm> > > That would suggest the data coming out of your database isn't > actually encoded in UTF-8, but is being displayed in UTF-8. Some > browsers helpfully detect charset mis-matches and will automatically > switch to the correct encoding, and others don't. > > Are you certain the data stored in the database is actually in UTF-8? > Do you have an example page that shows the problem? ...you're very likely right about this part. As I said, I had this same problem that the original poster explaiend and it turned out that there was a hole in my UTF-8 flow in my PHP code. Start at http://www.mail-archive.com/jquery-en@googlegroups.com/msg14899.html to see the original thread I made and how I ended up solving it. Chris.
