UTF-8 problems PHP/MySQL

Question

I\'ve always used ISO-8859-1 encoding, but I\'m now going over to UTF-8.

Unfortunately I can\'t get it to work.

My MySQL DB is UTF-8, my PHP document is enco

Answer 1

Nowadays PDO is the recommended way to use mysql. With that you should use the connection string to set encoding. For example: "mysql:host=$host;dbname=$db;charset=utf8"