Re: [PHP] Greek Characters from MySQL to PHP to the Browser: ??????
Thanks to everybody's suggestions, problem solved. Yes, the default encoding for PHP's mysql client is latin1. So a quick query of: SET NAMES 'utf8' *per connection* works it all out. The articles and links were very helpful in alluminating some of the other particulars of working with utf-8. These will take a bit more reading and studying... Thanks to all! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Greek Characters from MySQL to PHP to the Browser: ??????
John Wells wrote:
Hi Everybody,
Despite all of my Googling and noodling, I can't seem to figure this
out, and am hoping someone might be able to point me in the right
direction.
Scenario:
- Running Apache 1.3 on OSX 10.4, PHP 5.1.4, MySQL 5.0.19
- Greek text is stored in a MySQL database, encoding set to UTF-8
- From within a db admin like CocoaMySQL, the greek text looks normal
- PHP queries the db table for the greek text
- no matter how I echo the text to screen (see below), it only
produces '?' marks
What I've tried:
- force utf-8 headers to be sent --- header(Content-type:
text/html; charset=UTF-8);
- indicate utf-8 in the meta tag -- meta http-equiv=Content-Type
content=text/html; charset=utf-8 /
- simpley echo the string as is -- echo $greek_string;
- wrap output in htmlentities() -- echo htmlentities($greek_string,
ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8');
- wrap output in utf8_decode() -- echo utf8_decode($greek_string);
- If I copy and paste greek characters from the db table into a string
in my PHP script, and output that, it works just FINE, without any
htmlentities() or other functions.
I'm at a loss. What am I doing wrong?
odds are your not specifying a charset for the connection ... and that the
default
connection charset is ISO-8859-1 (known as Latin1 in MySQL iirc).
try running these 2 queries after you connect to the DB (might not work, it
depends on
on MySQL version):
$CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$qry1 = SET NAMES '{$CharSet}');
$qry2 = SET CHARACTER SET {$CharSet};
Thanks in advance,
John W
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Re: [PHP] Greek Characters from MySQL to PHP to the Browser: ??????
On Tue, August 8, 2006 10:27 am, John Wells wrote: Despite all of my Googling and noodling, I can't seem to figure this out, and am hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I would guess that the MySQL client linked into PHP isn't UTF-8, and it keeps asking the MySQL server to switch to Latin1... You may find this blog post worth reading: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/01/turning_mysql_data_in_latin1_t.html -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Greek Characters from MySQL to PHP to the Browser: ??????
John Wells wrote: Hi Everybody, Despite all of my Googling and noodling, I can't seem to figure this out, and am hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction. Scenario: - Running Apache 1.3 on OSX 10.4, PHP 5.1.4, MySQL 5.0.19 - Greek text is stored in a MySQL database, encoding set to UTF-8 - From within a db admin like CocoaMySQL, the greek text looks normal - PHP queries the db table for the greek text - no matter how I echo the text to screen (see below), it only produces '?' marks What I've tried: - force utf-8 headers to be sent --- header(Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8); - indicate utf-8 in the meta tag -- meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 / - simpley echo the string as is -- echo $greek_string; - wrap output in htmlentities() -- echo htmlentities($greek_string, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8'); - wrap output in utf8_decode() -- echo utf8_decode($greek_string); - If I copy and paste greek characters from the db table into a string in my PHP script, and output that, it works just FINE, without any htmlentities() or other functions. I'm at a loss. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, John W Can't you set PHP's internal encoding to utf8... ; language for internal character representation. mbstring.language = utf8 -- life is a game... so have fun. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
