Insert a persian text in mysql table

Question

I want to store values of a form (in php) into mysql , one field is text and values of this field is in persian language , when I insert data to table this persian text stores in this shape : ???????

I use these codes but it isn't work properly

    mysql_set_charset('utf8',$db);
    mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8");   
    mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8_persian_ci");

tables ,database and columns has utf8_persian_ci collation

Answer 1

make sure the collation is utf8. collation persiab case insensitive may not work properly as the input char code may not be in range of persian charachters. unicode 8 will work. change the collation to utf8_general

Answer 2

your column/table has wrong coding, they should have

utf8_persian_ci

too