Why do i have to use set_charset(“utf8”) even though everything is utf-8 encoded? (MySQLi-PHP)
问题 My table's collation is utf8_general_ci. My pages are encoded with UTF-8 (without BOM). Within my pages, my Equiv meta tag sets character set to utf8 My data has Turkish characters in it. When i output them, it's not showing them as it should be but when i do $db->set_charset("utf8"); , it works. Why do i have to use $db->set_charset("utf8"); even though everything is utf-8 encoded? 回答1: The data is stored as UTF-8 in MySQL, but the PHP's client connection collation is not. Which is why you