Character Sets and Multibyte Strings

[Kevin Laurence]

Can someone help me with a character set/encoding problem?

I am using a MySQL database with PHP to store the name "Bedrich". Notice the
letter "r" in the name. It has an accent, just as it does in the following
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedrich_Smetana.

On my PHP-generated HTML page it's displayed as "Bed?ich". What am I doing
wrong?

MySQL is configured to use UTF-8, and I can see that it's working when I
view the data through phpMyAdmin.

My web page contains the line "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />".

Should I be using multibyte strings in my PHP code? Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks.

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

Re: Character Sets and Multibyte Strings

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Kevin Laurence wrote:
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> My web page contains the line "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
> content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />".[/color]

Don't. Use header() to specify the encoding. And use a web browser capable
of manually switching the enconding (such as Konqueror), in order to see if
the enconding is the real cause of the problem.

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