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Asked: 2026-06-16T12:37:44+00:00

1) I have a table tbl_Data in database which has name column with text

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1) I have a table tbl_Data in database which has name column with text comparision method (?) property set toutf8_polish_ci. Works as a charm, when I’m browsing tbl_Data through phpMyAdmin.

2) In my html code I’ve got:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">

so seems like I’m sending proper encoding headers for browser…

3) My PDO dsn contains ;charset=UTF-8, followed from php manual.

4) In my php code I use:

foreach(parent::query('SELECT ID,PLName,LatinName from tbl_Data') as $row) {
    $result = $result."
        <tr>
            <td>".utf8_encode($row['PLName'])."</td>
        </tr>
    ";
}

Having all of this I’m still getting ‘garbage’ (=?) chars instead of proper polish letters, though some of them are displaying well (phpMyAdmin shows all properly). What I am missing here? Please advice, fellows!

My MySQL Engine is InnoDB, webserver: nginx with fpm if it is revelant…

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  1. Editorial Team

    so seems like I’m sending proper encoding headers for browser.

    Wrong. <meta> is not an HTTP header but HTML tag, a non-standard one. So, your code still lacks proper header.

    header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

    My PDO dsn contains ;charset=UTF-8, followed from php manual.

    if your PHP version is less than 5.3.6 it won’t work either. use SET NAMES utf8 regular query instead

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