Issue with utf-8 encoding using PHP + MySQL

Question

I moved data from MySQL 4 (they were originally set to latin2 encoding) to MySQL 5 and set encoding to utf-8. It

Answer 1

try query

SET NAMES utf8

before any query in your application

Answer 2

It doesn't seem like setting every SQL Database, Table, and Field to UTF-8 in MySQL and is good enough. Very annoying.

Ended up forcing the issue to solve encoding problems:

Had to use this Every place I open the database: $db->set_charset("utf8");

And that worked. Finally.

Answer 3

Here is a fix. Set the header to header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); Then print your content using utf8_decode($content). You must have the two to make it work.

Answer 4

Try setting the MySQL connection to UTF-8:

SET NAMES 'utf8'

And send explicit UTF-8 headers, just in case your server has some other default settings:

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