How to display Unicode data with PHP [duplicate]

Answer 1

Try to set charachter encoding after mysql_connect function like this:

 mysql_query ("set character_set_client='utf8'"); 
 mysql_query ("set character_set_results='utf8'"); 

 mysql_query ("set collation_connection='utf8_general_ci'"); 

Answer 2

While inserting the data into a MySQL database using the relevant collation (ex. utf8_general_ci for Unicode characters, i.e Hindi). Also in use the PHP predefined function utf8_decode to display the characters in HTML.

Answer 3

First you need to convert your mysql data format to utf-8, see this great article by oreilly:

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Turning MySQL data to UTF-8

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After that make sure that your page's encoding type is utf-8:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Answer 4

Try to make sure the browser recognizes the page as Unicode.

Generally, this can be done by having your server send the right Content-type HTTP header, that includes the charset you're using.

For instance, something like this should work :

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
echo "வெள்ளிக்கிழமை ஐ";

If this works, and your dynamically generated page still doesn't :

• make sure your data in your MySQL database is in UTF-8 too
  • this can be set for each table, or even columns, in MySQL
• and make sure you are connecting to it using UTF-8.

Basically, all your application should use the same encoding :

• PHP files,
• Database
• HTTP server

Answer 5

For new version of PHP which used mysqli, use this code after connect to mysql:

mysqli_set_charset($link, 'utf8');

Answer 6

execute query

SET NAMES 'utf8'

right after connecting to database