How to insert an hebrew value into a mysql db in php

Question

I\'m trying to insert an hebrew value into my mysql db, instead of hebrew the values looks like that.

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Answer 1

I have solved my Hebrew language problem. It was a database and table row/field encoding issue. Here is the solution I used. I took help from another answer and the link is given below, in case anyone needs it.

1. The database collation has to be utf8_general_ci.
2. The collation of the table with Hebrew has to be utf8_general_ci.

3. In the PHP connection script put

   header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
   

4. In the xhtml head tag put

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
   

5. If you are using MySQLi put this code in the connection script after selecting the database:

   mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
   

   If you are using PDO, put

   $conn->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
   

The first answer helped me and I took it from there

Answer 2

I think I figure it out: here's my code:

$conn = mysqli_connect($dbserver,$dbuser,$dbpwd,$dbname);

if (mysqli_connect_errno()){
    printf("Connection failed: %s\n" , mysqli_connect_errno());
    exit();
}

printf("Initial character set: %s\n", mysqli_character_set_name($conn));

/* change character set to utf8 */
if (!mysqli_set_charset($conn, "hebrew")) {
    printf("Error loading character set hebrew: %s\n", mysqli_error($conn));
    exit();
} else {
    printf("Current character set: %s\n", mysqli_character_set_name($conn));
}