charset issue with mysql

Question

I\'m trying to store the following line in mysql:

$data = \"After 30μs, what fraction of the charge will remain?\"

If I display $data on HTML P

Answer 1

You need to set database connection encoding:

mysql_set_charset('utf8');

Or similar method, depending on your database library.

Answer 2

Whats your MySQL server's default charset and collation? Try executing the following query before any other queries inside your scripts.

SET NAMES utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

BTW, are we talking about a MySQL server?

Answer 3

Make sure your column's charset is utf-8, then use this method for inserting:

INSERT INTO my_table VALUES( 
    _utf8'After 30μs, what fraction of the charge will remain?', ...
);

and this for reading:

SELECT BINARY my_column FROM my_table;