Does anyone know if theres a bug on MySQL Query Browser tool for UTF

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Asked: May 27, 20262026-05-27T08:24:46+00:00 2026-05-27T08:24:46+00:00

Does anyone know if theres a bug on MySQL Query Browser tool for UTF 8 insert?

if i do:

INSERT INTO tbl VALUES ('Hellá');

I got the (‘Hell�’) string in the browser.

That happens only with data inserted into DB via MySQL Query Browser Tool.

Note: Using Ajax/PHP on Apache 2.2 server with those config for PHP

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

And html set to:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN' http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd'>

with:

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

Also in the FireFox properties for the page its fully UTF8.

Also the page was constructed using NotePad++ already codified in UTF8.

And… data inserted via Ajax is ok.

So…. what i’m missing…???

Best Regards.

EDIT:

Table charset UTF8 and
Table collation UTF8_general_ci.

also for gods sake… in my.ini:

[client]
default-character-set=utf8
port=3306

[mysql]

default-character-set=utf8

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-27T08:24:46+00:00

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You need to explicitly set the character set in PHP using mysql_set_charset or equivalent method/function

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