Euro sign not showing on site

Question

One of my fields (which is a latin1_swedish_ci) seems to show the euro symbol fine in PHPMYADMIN inside of the field.

However, when I try to echo it in an input fie

Answer 1

Try to change the MySQL charset to UTF-8 or to Swedish.

Here it is a small example.

Answer 2

If you are serving the page as UTF-8, you will need to ensure you grab the string out of the database in the UTF-8 encoding before putting it on the page. You can do that using:

mysql_set_charset('utf8');

(If you're doing that it would also make sense to store your actual table data in UTF-8 too, eg utf8_general_ci, rather than latin1_swedish_ci, so you can deal properly with characters outside of the basic Latin-1 set.)

Answer 3

Try using htmlentities() instead of htmlspecialchars().

Special chars does not convert everything, just a few select characters. The Euro symbol €, needs to be encoded really, €.