How to fetch kannada values from the database in php?

[shruthigc]

How to fetch kannada values from the database in php?
example: ಆಕಾಶ
I want php programm to fetch the above example.....

[dlite922]

Is your database in UTF-8 charset?

Dan

[shruthigc]

I want exact encoder to fetch kannada character from the database

Is your database in UTF-8 charset?

Dan

yessssss..... my database is in UTF-8 !!!

I want exact encoder to fetch kannada character from the database in php.........

[Dormilich]

then you need to set your db connection to use UTF-8 and (naturally) the output encoding as well.

[shruthigc]

It is in UTF-8 only but the output is displays ?????? like this

then you need to set your db connection to use UTF-8 and (naturally) the output encoding as well.

It is in UTF-8 only but the output is displays ?????? like this, for that what i want to do?


I want to fetch kannada character from the database
i need php encoder syntax.......

[Dormilich]

did you verify the output encoding?

[shruthigc]

Yes i verified the output, but it displays as ??????? like this only..

did you verify the output encoding?

Yes i verified the output, but it displays as ??????? like this only..


There is an encoding syntax are there for kannada characters to fetch the values from the database.

[Dormilich]

Yes i verified the output,

I didn't ask for the output, I asked for the output encoding.

as example, if you display Shift-JIS as Latin-1 you'll only see scrambled characters.

[shruthigc]

How to verify the output encoding?

I didn't ask for the output, I asked for the output encoding.

as example, if you display Shift-JIS as Latin-1 you'll only see scrambled characters.

I want one more clarification,h ow to connect database
in php?

[kirtikanani]

simply you want to connect database you requrment phpmyadmin
fist on create database after
you can use mysql_connect function after selcte database
afeter
you can fetch record useing the mysql_fetch_arr ay function