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Asked: 2026-05-18T08:51:45+00:00

I am using UTF-8 encoding on my website. Lately I have been storing chinese/spanish/russian

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I am using UTF-8 encoding on my website. Lately I have been storing chinese/spanish/russian names in my MySQL tables and then printing them with PHP on a page generated with a charset of UTF-8. The page works fine and I see all the letters correctly. However, I just realized that my table is set with latin1_swedish_ci charset. How is it possible that even though I stored these names with latin1_swedish_ci charset, serving them on my site with UTF-8 still shows them up correctly?

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Joel

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  1. Editorial Team

    Because mysql connection is still using latin1,
    you should treat these data is in UTF-8 but store in latin1 environment.

    So, to prove it, 

    show variables like '%char%';

    the above should return most of the setting is in latin1

    apply

    set names utf8;

    And you would see all the UTF-8 become double encoded (garbled)

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