ISO-8859-1 Character truncates text inserting into utf-8 mysql column

Question

So I have a weird truncate issue! Can\'t find a specific answer on this.

So basically there\'s an issue with an apparent ISO character ½ that truncates the rest of the

Answer 1

Did you call set_charset() on your MySQLi database connection? It's required to properly use real_escape_string().

$db = new mysqli(...);
$db->set_charset('utf8');

Setting session variables in your connection is not enough -- those affect what happens on the server-side. The set_charset will affect what happens client side.

You can checkout the PHP reference mysqli::real_escape_string