No GREEK???

Hello....

I am trying do display data stored in mysql.. i get the data but because it
is(text) in greek it comes out like ?????????
i have changed the collation to greek_bin
both in the table as in the whole database...
I even tryied with the HTML tags of charset but even though i get these
???????
to define: i got a table named fysc and two columns named "per" and "askisi"
as you see, i am searching in askisi to get results from per....

my code:

$sql = 'SELECT per FROM fysc WHERE askisi="fysc2" ';
//$what = mysql_query($sql);
$results = mysql_query($sql);
//$what = mysql_query($sql); ?>

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
extract($row);
echo $per;
echo "<br>";
}

?>

DID IT!!!! YEAH!!!!
:-)

just had to add
mysql_query("SET NAMES greek")
i dont exactly know what this does but it worked!
Hehe....
if anyone has the time to explain....
Thanx!
Ï <jb*@ewebs.grÝãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá news:eb**********@aluminium.acn.gr...

Hello....

I am trying do display data stored in mysql.. i get the data but because
it is(text) in greek it comes out like ?????????
i have changed the collation to greek_bin
both in the table as in the whole database...
I even tryied with the HTML tags of charset but even though i get these
???????
to define: i got a table named fysc and two columns named "per" and
"askisi" as you see, i am searching in askisi to get results from per....

my code:

$sql = 'SELECT per FROM fysc WHERE askisi="fysc2" ';
//$what = mysql_query($sql);
$results = mysql_query($sql);
//$what = mysql_query($sql); ?>

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
extract($row);
echo $per;
echo "<br>";
}

?>

[Juliette]

jb*@ewebs.gr wrote:

DID IT!!!! YEAH!!!!
:-)

just had to add
mysql_query("SET NAMES greek")
i dont exactly know what this does but it worked!
Hehe....
if anyone has the time to explain....
Thanx!
Ï <jb*@ewebs.grÝãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá news:eb**********@aluminium.acn.gr...

> Hello....

I am trying do display data stored in mysql.. i get the data but because
it is(text) in greek it comes out like ?????????
i have changed the collation to greek_bin
both in the table as in the whole database...
I even tryied with the HTML tags of charset but even though i get these
???????
to define: i got a table named fysc and two columns named "per" and
"askisi" as you see, i am searching in askisi to get results from per....

my code:

$sql = 'SELECT per FROM fysc WHERE askisi="fysc2" ';
//$what = mysql_query($sql);
$results = mysql_query($sql);
//$what = mysql_query($sql); ?>

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
extract($row);
echo $per;
echo "<br>";
}

?>

You can find an explanation in this tutorial:
http://adviesenzo.nl/examples/php_mysql_charset_fix/

[Jerry Stuckle]

jb*@ewebs.gr wrote:

DID IT!!!! YEAH!!!!
:-)

just had to add
mysql_query("SET NAMES greek")
i dont exactly know what this does but it worked!
Hehe....
if anyone has the time to explain....
Thanx!
Ï <jb*@ewebs.grÝãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá news:eb**********@aluminium.acn.gr...

> Hello....

I am trying do display data stored in mysql.. i get the data but because
it is(text) in greek it comes out like ?????????
i have changed the collation to greek_bin
both in the table as in the whole database...
I even tryied with the HTML tags of charset but even though i get these
???????
to define: i got a table named fysc and two columns named "per" and
"askisi" as you see, i am searching in askisi to get results from per....

my code:

$sql = 'SELECT per FROM fysc WHERE askisi="fysc2" ';
//$what = mysql_query($sql);
$results = mysql_query($sql);
//$what = mysql_query($sql); ?>

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
extract($row);
echo $per;
echo "<br>";
}

?>

If you want an explanation, you might try a MySQL newsgroup - such as
comp.databases.mysql.
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