can't insert russian text into mysql database

Question

When I\'m trying to insert russian text into MySQL database it inserts it like: г???????????? ?? ????????
Рісѓрїр°ріс‹рї р° с‹рір°рї

So, I have two pages: regist

Answer 1

Check your MySQL configuration and ensure that your encoding is defined correctly. Add these lines to my.cnf or my.ini, which ever your installation uses. These settings did the trick for me:

[client]
default-character-set=utf8

[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8

Answer 2

I store greek in tables created like ths:

CREATE TABLE `test` (
  `test_id` SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL   AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `test_name` VARCHAR(30)  NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`test_id`)
 ) ENGINE=InnoDB   DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 ROW_FORMAT=COMPACT;

Or if table already created I guess you can change the charset it in the phpmyadmin interface. Maybe this helps.

Answer 3

I have tried multiple collations in phpMyAdmin as well as changing the charset of the page, which didn;t make sense but i was willing to try anything after two days of research. this command helped me: mysql_set_charset('utf8');

Collation on the column was set to koi8r_general_ci

Answer 4

Edit your structure field to set collation utf16_general_ci.
After that insert your data.

Answer 5

Try calling mysql_set_charset('utf8'); after connecting to the database. I think it's similar to executing a SET NAMES query, but since the PHP manual says using that function over a SET NAMES query is recommended, I'd try it.

Also, when you display your content, you could try echo htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');