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Asked: 2026-05-25T00:17:31+00:00

i hav a database that contains spanish characters. to populate the database i am

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i hav a database that contains spanish characters. to populate the database i am getting the values from client page which has character encoding=UTF-8. when i insert the values in mySql database the rows contain altered data. for example if i insert ‘México’, the entry in the database is ‘México’. the impact this has is when i do a query on the table specifying ‘México’, i get no results. my question is how do u insert spanish or other latin accent in mysql database? i hav tried all the collations, htmlentities() etc but nothing works!!
when making mysql query i checked what data is being sent and it is in its correct form ‘México’ but when i see the table entry through phpmyadmin, its altered!!

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    Change your mysql database/ table / column encoding to UTF-8 (and also set the collation to a compatible value).

    ALTER TABLE mytable CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE mytable 
MODIFY country CHAR(50) 
CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

    Also specify the char set at the PHP side when connecting. 

    mysql_set_charset('utf8',$conn);

    Take a look at this article for further info and a script to batch change every table / column in a database.

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