Comments on: French Characters Not Rendering Correctly

By: Ghulam Rasool

Ghulam Rasool — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:56:23 +0000

thanx for help it is helpful discussion

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:37:03 +0000

Mark’s comment worked for me and my annoying french accents! Thanks guys. You just submit the query ‘SET NAMES utf8′ prior to submitting your funny characters.

By: The Warden

The Warden — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:53:37 +0000

Re: Mark

I would entirely agree Mark. However I’m using MySQL v4.0.23 and that statement will not work. My assumptions are that proper support for character encoding was not supported until v4.1. I was unable to find anyone to help me further on this with the version I have installed. I would definitely upgrade if I could.

By: The Warden

The Warden — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:50:32 +0000

Re: Mike

Yes I would agree it does do that and rightfully it should as you have specified specifically to use a character encoding set in the meta tags.

By: Mark Robson

Mark Robson — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:58:34 +0000

You would probably find it easier, and it would be more correct, to set the database’s client connection encoding to utf8 instead of using iconv() in PHP.

Just do “SET NAMES utf8″ after connecting each time.

Mark

By: mike

mike — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:31:16 +0000

what i’ve realized is that no matter what column type (latin1, utf-8) in mysql, if the browser’s meta tag is set to utf-8, it will encode it on input and on output.

of course, if you wanted to do anything specific with the data outside of a browser, you’d probably run in to trouble though. but otherwise mysql appears to treat it just like normal binary data and there’s no special treatment needed in PHP or MySQL…