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Asked: 2026-06-11T10:54:54+00:00

I am using PHP and MySQL for an application. Questions are: How to store

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I am using PHP and MySQL for an application.

Questions are:

  1. How to store data in MySQL नवीन खेतिहर उपकरण। readable format or निलेस र पà¥à¤¬ format

  2. When user enters data in a textbox and clicks on submit, at that time we get data in different format. What we need to do should we convert and store in MySQL in readable format.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Choose utf8 character set and utf8_general_ci collation.

    Obviously, Collation of the field (to which you want to store Hindi text) should be utf8_general_ci.

    To alter your table field, run

    ALTER TABLE `<table_name>` CHANGE `<field_name>` `<field_name>` VARCHAR(100) 
CHARSET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci DEFAULT '' NOT NULL;

    Once you’ve connected to database, run the following statement at first

    mysql_set_charset('utf8');

    Eg:

    //setting character set
mysql_set_charset('utf8');

//insert Hindi text
mysql_query("INSERT INTO ....");

    To retrieve data

    //setting character set
mysql_set_charset('utf8');

//select Hindi text
mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ....");

    Before you printing any unicode text (say Hindi text) on browser, you should have to set content type of that page by adding a meta tag

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

    Eg:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Example Unicode</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php echo $hindiText; ?>
</body>
</html>

    Update:

    mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8") has changed tomysql_set_charset(‘utf8’);
    This is the preferred way to change the charset. Using mysql_query() to set it (such as SET NAMES utf8) is not recommended. See http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-set-charset.php*

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