PHP MySQL Greek letters showing like ???? marks

Question

I have a table with some text and text is greek letters, when i use sql tool and select the data from this table is showing correctly

Answer 1

I wasted many hours till i figured this out.

Intro: Greek characters were appearing wrong in mysql. I applied qxxx answer in PHP and worked fine. Then I had to migrate everything to a new host, and then the problem reappeared.

What was wrong?

The MySQL's schema charset was set to latin. The stored procedures had inherited MySQL's schema charset for their parameters.

So what I did:

1. Dropped MySQL procedures/functions (make sure you backup your code)

2. Changed default charset of MySQL (using MySQL Workbench, right click on your database name-has a db icon..)

3. re-created the MySQL procedures/functions

Also, I left intact the qxxx 's fix!