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

mysql utf-8 is not the real utf-8. it uses 3 bytes instead of 4. For real utf-8, you have to use utf8mb4:

mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8mb4");
mysql_set_charset("utf8mb4");