Latin characters in phpMyAdmin with UTF-8 collation
Solution 1
As @Artefacto says, this could be a problem local to phpMyAdmin.
If phpMyAdmin is fine (i.e. set to UTF-8) and the data is still showing up weird, then look at whether your database connection using UTF-8 as well?
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8")
(or whatever you use as a database library) might help if it isn't.
Solution 2
for Scuzzu's Question there are several ways:
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/12/18/fixing-column-encoding-mess-in-mysql/
I would have eight more links with different tasks but this site is prevent me from saving them...
"as a spam prevention mechanism, new users can only post a maximum of one hyperlink"
Solution 3
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8") solved my problem.
Problem: Characters displayed correctly in phpMyAdmin, wrong in HTML/PHP. Characters: â, î, etc.
The headers are ok (utf8), phpmyadmin displays the content in the correct form, but the website keeps showing weird question-mark characters (inside a black diamond character).
HTML code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
Solution: I've added in php (preceding any other queries):
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
Other causes can lead to this behaviour; this is only one part of the solution. You may need to check content-type, web server configuration (httpd.conf), html lang / dir, charset, etc. However, question mark in a black diamond seems to be more specific to this problem/solution, in other cases are displayed 2-3 weird characters instead of the one you want.
Solution 4
If phpMyAdmin is showing ñññ instead of ñññ, that's because it's interpreting a UTF-8 bytestream as ISO-8859-1. So your database contents are probably correct, phpMyAdmin is just showing them in a wrong manner.
I'm not familiar with the application, but you can force the browser to read the page as UTF-8 (typically View > Encoding > UTF-8).
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Dan H almost 2 years
My website uses:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">And this meta:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />I created my database and tables in phpMyAdmin making sure everything is set as utf8_unicode_ci (table, fields, database), even the connection collation.
When I insert some latin characters (accents, ñ and stuff like that) into the database using an standard form made in PHP, it works fine, I can display the saved data in my website no problem. But if I go to phpMyAdmin, all the latin characters are all messed up, something like ñññ.
If I try to fix that data in phpMyAdmin, then my website displays the data incorrectly, with weird symbols ���.
What in this world am I doing wrong? I've been trying to work this out for hours with no success.
Thank you all!