How to encode cyrillic in mysql?

Question

what\'s up? :-)
I have one problem and i hope you can help me with it.

One friend of mine have a simple solid html website and i implemented little php; CRUD sys

Answer 1

Make sure you call this after connecting to database.

mysql_query("SET NAMES UTF8");

Also make sure that HTML file has charset meta tag set to UTF-8 or send header before output.

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

Answer 2

if its really mysql fetch assoc messing up you should try: mysql-set-charset

from the docs:

Note:

This is the preferred way to change the charset. Using mysql_query() to execute SET NAMES .. is not recommended.

also make sure your files are saved as utf8 and check iconv_set_encoding / iconv_get_encoding

Answer 3

For anyone having more complex issues with legacy project upgrades from versions before PHP 5.6 and MYSQL 5.1 to PHP 7 & Latest MySQL/Percona/MariaDB etc...

If the project uses utf8_encode($value) you can either try removing the function from the value being prepared and use the accepted answer for setting UTF-8 encoding for all input.

--- OR ---

Try replacing utf8_encode($value) with mb_convert_encoding($value, 'utf-8')

PDO USERS

If you are using PDO here are two ways how to set utf8:

$options = [
    \PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8'
];

new \PDO($dsn, $username, $passwd, $options);

--- OR ---

$dsn = 'mysql:host=localhost;charset=utf8;'

new \PDO($dsn, $username, $passwd);

I can confirm that mb_convert_encoding($value, 'utf-8') to SQL table using utf8_unicode_ci works for Cyrillic and Umlaut.

Answer 4

I had the same problem until I encoded the 'Collation' column in my table to 'utf8_bin'.