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

Check two things first:

• Are you inserting the data as UTF-8? If the data is coming from a web page, make sure the page's encoding is set to UTF-8 (encoding meta tag is set in the page header).
• Are you sure the data is not saved as Unicode? This is the reverse situation: if phpMyAdmin uses something else other than UTF-8, you'd see the garbled characters when it displays the contents.