charset issue with mysql

Question

I\'m trying to store the following line in mysql:

$data = \"After 30μs, what fraction of the charge will remain?\"

If I display $data on HTML P

Answer 1

Whats your MySQL server's default charset and collation? Try executing the following query before any other queries inside your scripts.

SET NAMES utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

BTW, are we talking about a MySQL server?