I assume I should check if my mysql has support for UTF-8,
I believe it just has to be 4.1 or newer. And, that's only necessary so
you can get UTF-8 aware sorting and such. You don't need any special
support to just _store_ UTF-8 data.
Ah, that's actually the critical part. I'm
Waynn Lue wrote:
I'm getting a weird ^A character when I
try to print it out in a textarea field.
In that case, what character set does the browser think it should be
using for the page? If you don't explicitly declare it, the browser has
to guess, and you know what happens when you rely
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Subject: Re: latin1 vs UTF-8
Waynn Lue wrote:
I'm getting a weird ^A character when I
try to print it out in a textarea field.
In that case, what character set does the browser think it should be
using for the page? If you don't explicitly declare it, the browser has
to guess, and you know
Waynn Lue wrote:
I'm trying to figure out if the fact that the charset
is set to latin1 is the reason why.
It shouldn't be. The registered trademark symbol is code point 0xAE in
ISO 8859-1 according to the 'pedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1
So, it would seem that your
Are you using mysqli, PDO, or mysql? There are differences in the way the
character set is determined, as I discovered after much the same experience
as yours.
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