have you altered your php.ini file in the mbstring section? I don't know if it makes a difference but I have always changed my to:
; language for internal character representation. mbstring.language = utf8 ; internal/script encoding. mbstring.internal_encoding = utf8 and have never had a problem. D. wrote: > Hi, this might not be a mysql problem, but hopefully someone will be > able to answer, thanks in advance. > > I notice a lot of people had asked the same question and the typical > response in the mailing list seemed to be, "make sure you encode the > data to utf-8 before insert into mysql...", or something similiar. > > I have tried that too, but somehow it didn't work out.. > > what i'm trying to do is, to make everything utf-8, so that there is > no conversion between database <-> connection <-> php <-> output (at > least on the server level) > > the first thing i did was to set mysql charset variables: > character set client utf8 > character set connection utf8 > character set database utf8 > character set results utf8 > character set server utf8 > character set system utf8 > > all database, tables are created in utf8 > > output HTML charset: utf-8 > (I even set the php code to utf-8...dont know if that's useful...) > > case 1: > when i input traditional chinese characters on internet explorer > (charset utf-8) and store them into database, supposingly there's no > need to go through any encoding conversion? (the browser will send the > data in utf-8? i did a utf-8 validation, just to make sure all the > data are utf-8 before i insert, and the data was utf-8 validated.) > > when I extract the data from mysql: > 1. it works fine, almost all characters can display properly, except > for some characters. (example: ? ?, will show up as ? ?) > 2. NONE of the data showed up correctly in mysql query browser > > case 2: > i inputed in a set of test data in mysql query browser, and it shows > up properly in mysql query browser, but when i try to fetch the data > from my php, and render it to browser( charset utf-8), it shows up > ????? (that's the problem other ppl are having i guess, but i have > done all those encoding steps, did I?) > > phpMyAdmin (my version 2.6.1beta, and 2.6.1) behaves the same way > mysql query browser does. > > just to make things less complicated, instead of getting data from browser, > i tried to get from uft-8 encoded files (same bad result), > and i tired to make the data contained in a variable inside the php > code page(utf-8 encoded), same problem occured. > and lastly, i tried to output the posted data back to browser(without > going through database), internet explorer renders all characters > properly. > > so it seems to me that i'm missing something on the php & mysql > communication level. is that so? > > other information: > php 5.0.3 > apache 2.0.53 > windows xp sp2 > mysql 4.1.10a with innoDB/utf8 default > mysql query browser 1.1.6 > phpMyAdmin 2.6.1 > mysql & mysqli > > I notice that phpMyAdmin doesn't have this problem when it displays > the data it stores, probably this is not a mysql issue, (phpMyAmin > works well with MySql Query Browser too, i must have missed something > in php i guess), hopefully someone will be able to tell me, so my > questions are: > > after setting mysql charset to utf-8, and beside making sure the data > is encoded in utf-8 properly (which i think i did), what else do i > need to do on the programming level? > or could i have done wrong in some of the steps? > or could i have not done some necessary steps to work with mysql > charset features? > > and lastly, > is it possible to develope an encoding conversion free program(at > least on the server(s) level)? > > any inputs will be appreciated. I thank everyone in advance. > > de-zhao > -- Respectfully, Ligaya Turmelle "Life is a game.... so have fun"
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