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Asked: 2026-06-08T21:15:10+00:00

Hi everyone I’m currently using phpmyadmin to build a table but I’m having several

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Hi everyone I’m currently using phpmyadmin to build a table but I’m having several problems.

These are my current settings:

Server: localhost via TCP/IP
Server version: 5.5.16
Protocol version: 10
User: root@localhost
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
Apache/2.2.21 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0e PHP/5.3.8 mod_perl/2.0.4
Perl/v5.10.1
MySQL client version: mysqlnd 5.0.8-dev - 20102224 - $Revision: 310735 $
PHP extension: mysql

I’m trying to fill the native_name column of my language column.

It has to look sorta like this:

Language ID  Language Code  Language name   Native name   Active
-----------  -------------  -------------   ------------  ------
1            afr            Afrikaans       Afrikaans     0
2            sqi            Albanian        gjuha shqipe  1
3            ara            Arabic          العربية
4            spa            Spanish         Espanol       1
5            eng            English         English       1

But what I’m getting is this:

Language ID  Language Code  Language name   Native name   Active
-----------  -------------  -------------   ------------  ------
1            afr            Afrikaans       Afrikaans     0
2            sqi            Albanian        gjuha shqipe  1
3            ara            Arabic          ?????????
4            spa            Spanish         Espanol       1
5            eng            English         English       1

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Ok so this is how the story went. As you know from the example above; the native name column has to contain a whole bunch of strange characters. I got the ???? ??? entry while doing the insert via SQL so then I decided that maybe an inline edit would solve things.

After saving my in line edit however the Arabic text I had pasted in reverted back to ??????? ???? on page refresh.

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Any idea on how I can solve this? As you can see its happening on all the characters (i.e. Japanese, Chinese and so on) in the table!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Basically, based on your comments, you have invalid character set and collation on your table / columns, so you will need to perform character set conversion and possibly repopulation of the table itself…

    ALTER TABLE [table] MODIFY [column] [type] CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
    ALTER TABLE [table] DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci

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