PHP + Unicode

[willwudan]

Hi all,

I have saved some data in a MySQL database as UTF-8 format. But when I
tried
to read the data using PHP, the webpage gave me all the "?"s. How to
read it
multilingual data correctly in PHP?
I believe there must be a way since I can see the words in UTF-8 in the

phpmyadmin interface. phpmyadmin is also coded in PHP and if it can do
it,
there must be a way to read multilingual data properly.

Anyone knows how to do it? Thanks a lot!

--Dan

[Alvaro G Vicario]

*** wi*******@gmail.com wrote/escribió (25 Aug 2005 22:27:20 -0700):

I have saved some data in a MySQL database as UTF-8 format. But when I
tried
to read the data using PHP, the webpage gave me all the "?"s. How to
read it
multilingual data correctly in PHP?

Have you set the appropriate headers to tell browser what charset it should
use to decode? It may not be the solution but it's a necessary step. Rather
than:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

tell it's UTF-8.

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[willwudan]

Yes, I set the appropriate headers to tell the browser it is UTF-8. But
it does not help!
Alvaro G Vicario wrote:

Have you set the appropriate headers to tell browser what charset it should
use to decode? It may not be the solution but it's a necessary step. Rather
than:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

tell it's UTF-8.

--
-- Álvaro G. Vicario - Burgos, Spain
-- http://bits.demogracia.com - Mi sitio sobre programación web
-- Don't e-mail me your questions, post them to the group
--

[Oliver Grätz]

Try this before you output anything:

mb_http_output("UTF-8");
ob_start("mb_output_handler");

It automagically converts to UTF-8. Other suggestion:
Have you set the Default-Charset in your httpd.conf? If I recall
correctly it overrides anything in your script if it is set.

AllOlli