Question

At the moment I’m reading rss feeds that may be encoded in any character type, using simplexml_load_file();

These feeds are then looped through in php and some parts are inserted into a mysql database that is utf8 with all tables utf8 general.

When inserted into the tables I can see the ‘ is replaced with ’ and – is replaced with –

These strange characters are then shown when selected back from the table and shown in a php file.

I’ve tried both utf8_decode and utf8_encode on insert and select from the database but this doesn’t help, what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

put mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET utf8'); before your insert and select queries