PHP + Unicode

[willwudan@gmail.com]

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]

Re: PHP + Unicode

*** willwudan@gmail .com wrote/escribió (25 Aug 2005 22:27:20 -0700):[color=blue]
> 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?[/color]

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@gmail.com]

Re: PHP + Unicode

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


Alvaro G Vicario wrote:
[color=blue]
>
> 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
> --[/color]

[Oliver Grätz]

Re: PHP + Unicode

Try this before you output anything:

mb_http_output( "UTF-8");
ob_start("mb_ou tput_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