Question

I am working on parsing a HTML of website and saving information to database but in the website, there are Non English character (like Chinese, Indian, Korean, etc) that should be saved into MySQL. My problem is that in MySQL (when i view those information using PHP MyAdmin), it displays weird characters.

İlginç Gerçekler
ê³µì—°ì •ë³´ PARTI(ì—°ê·¹,콘서트,뮤지컬,오í…
ì •ì‹ ì—°ë ¹ 테스트

How to properly save these information to database?

Answer 1

try using

mysql_query("SET NAMES 'UTF8'");

after mysql_connect or mysql_select_db. I use that for Turkish
mysql_query(“SET NAMES ‘latin5′”);