MySql spanish character data

Question

i hav a database that contains spanish characters. to populate the database i am getting the values from client page which has character encoding=UTF-8. when i insert the va

Answer 1

Change your mysql database/ table / column encoding to UTF-8 (and also set the collation to a compatible value).

ALTER TABLE mytable CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE mytable 
MODIFY country CHAR(50) 
CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

Also specify the char set at the PHP side when connecting.

mysql_set_charset('utf8',$conn); 

Take a look at this article for further info and a script to batch change every table / column in a database.