Which is the best character encoding for Japanese language for DB, php, and html display?
Solution 1
UTF-8 without a doubt. Make everything UTF-8. To put UTF-8 encoded text on your web page, use this within your HEAD tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
As for MySQL, put the following into your my.cnf (config) file:
[mysqld]
collation_server=utf8_unicode_ci
character_set_server=utf8
default-character-set=utf8
default-collation=utf8_general_ci
collation-server=utf8_general_ci
If you're getting garbage characters from the database from queries executed by your application, you might need to execute these two queries before fetching your Japanese text:
SET NAMES utf8
SET CHARACTER SET utf8
Solution 2
Make Sure
- Database is in UTF8
- Database Table is in UTF 8
- Output Headers are in UTF 8
- HTML Meta Tag is in UTF 8
When everything is talking the encoding you can live happily :)
For MySQL: utf8 charset, utf8_general_ci collation For PHP headers:
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8') ;
For HTML
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" value="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
Solution 3
Update... This Q&A suggests that CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATION utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
is best in newer versions of MySQL.
Comments
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Bojan Muvrin almost 2 years
i just want to know about the language transation for the Japanese, 1) Which is the best encoding for the database mysql 2) Which/how can i print that in HTML page. ? thanks in advance.