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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:56:18+00:00

EDIT: After feedback from my original post, I’ve change the text to clarify my

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EDIT: After feedback from my original post, I’ve change the text to clarify my problem.

I have the following query (pseudo code):

$conn = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'; COLLATE='utf8_danish_ci';");

mysql_query("SELECT id FROM myTable WHERE name = 'Fióre`s måløye'", $conn);

This returns 0 rows.

In my logfile, I see this:

255 Connect     root@localhost on 
255 Query       SET NAMES 'utf8'; COLLATE='utf8_danish_ci'
255 Init DB     norwegianfashion
255 Query       SELECT id FROM myTable WHERE name = 'Fióre`s måløye'
255 Quit
  • If I run the query directly in phpMyAdmin, I get the result.
  • Table encoding: UTF-8
  • HTML page encoding: UTF-8
  • I can add records (from form input) where names uses accents (e.g. “Fióre`s Häßelberg”)
  • I can read records with accents when using -> “name LIKE ‘$labelName%'”
  • The information in the DB looks fine

I have no clue why I can’t select any rows which name has accent characters.

I really hope someone can help me.

UPDATE 1:
I’ve come to a compromise. I’ll be converting accents with htmlentities when storing data, and html_entity_decode when retrieving data from the DB. That seems to work.

The only drawback I see so far, is that I can’t read the names in cleartext using phpMySQL.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As other answers indicate, this very much seems like an encoding problem. I suggest turning on query logging ( http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-log.html ) as it can show you what the database really receives.

    UPDATE:
    I finally found a page explaining the dirty details of PHP and UTF-8 (http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets). Also, make sure you read this (http://niwo.mnsys.org/saved/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html) to understand how you to get proper data returned from form posts.

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