UTF8 and Japanese characters

Question

Problem: Foreign character are not displayed as they should be. This includes German, Japanese, Russian and all others excluding English (works perfectly). Ones PHP makes a

Answer 1

You most likely need to set the character set of your database connection to UTF-8.

How to do that depends on the database library you are using.

In the old mySQL library, it would be

mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");

(pre mySQL 5.0.7) and

mysql_set_charset("utf8");

for mySQL 5.0.7 and newer.