Getting weird characters when fetching value in mysql database

Question

I\'m getting this kind of result in my database ’ everytime i\'m typing this character ’

I already use mysql_query(\'SET CHARACTER

Answer 1

try to do a select with a charset collate and use utf8_bin like this:

SELECT k COLLATE utf8_bin AS k1
FROM t1
ORDER BY k1;

if it works for you, you can change the collate for a column by using alter table, here is an example I used today for one of my dbs: (you could do this also with phpMyAdmin easily)

ALTER TABLE  `users` 
CHANGE  `name`  `name` VARCHAR( 255 ) 
CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL

but make a backup first!