a permanent way of doing mysqli->set_charset()?

Question

after setting all config file and runtime options for charset that i can find to utf-8, new mysqli connections made with php still has its charset set to latin1, which effective

Answer 1

according to the following posts from MySQL

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-connection.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-applications.html

your settings are not completely right i.e.

use

 [mysqld]
 character-set-server=utf8
 collation-server=utf8_general_ci

instead of

 [mysqld]
 default-character-set=utf8

for the client I only found

 [mysql]
 default-character-set=utf8

not

 [client]
 default-character-set=utf8

try and give me some feedback.

I can remember that I once read about a setting var to switch off the ability for a client to change the character setting. But I can't find the ref in mysql documentation now. If I find it I let you know.

Hope that helps.

Regards

UPDATE

@Unisland BTW I found this thread http://www.webmasterworld.com/php/3553642.htm where a similar problem is discussed

Try either

So you may try to add a:
[mysqld]
init-connect='SET NAMES utf8'

or

[client]
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8
default-character-set=utf8
default-collation=utf8_unicode_ci
character-set-client = utf8

to set this as a default for all connections, or start with these queries after your specific script connects to the database before sending other queries: SET NAMES utf8; SET CHARACTER_SET utf8;