Cannot store UTF8 characters in MySQL

Question

Cannot find the reason why I am unable to store in a MySQL database characters like ţ, î, ş.

My table definition is:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `gen_         


        

Answer 1

If this:

$text = 'ţ, î, ş';

is your literal code, you need to make sure that the PHP source file is encoded as UTF-8 as well. Otherwise, these characters will be ISO-8859-1 characters in a Unicode context, resulting in broken characters.