I don't know if this is the right way to get back to the thread, hopefully this will be placed under the same thread. :)
Thank you for your input, Ligaya. ahhh...mbstring, I tired that after i got your reply, but it didn't help to solve the puzzle, I did manage to find myself a solution last night though, it turns out that even if I set --default-character-set = utf-8 in the option file, the character_set_client, character_set_results, character_set_connection somehow are still latin1. I don't know if this is some bug in mysql (--default-character-set in option file has little or no effects??), or it has to do with php internal encoding(php issues a latin1 charset upon every mysql connection by default?? is that possible? I am still wondering....) anyway, i manage to issue a SET NAMES 'utf8'; query after every connection, and everything works well. I'm pretty satisfied with this result at the moment, now i can catch some sleeps happily. thank you again, de-zhao cai On 4/13/05, Ligaya Turmelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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" > > >
