Question

I have a database, some of its data is in hebrew, and I see those symbols..

בדיקות ×™×“× ×™×•×ª   בדיקות ×™×“× ×™×•×ª

Is there a way to configure the database so I wont see those symbols?!??

Chrome , as opposed to firefox, also displays those weird symbols.. weird squares

Answer 1

From a command line:

ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET charset_name; 

Otherwise from phpmyadmin you could export and then import the database while changing the encoding. When you export it, at the end of the file you’ll see something like CHARSET=hebrew_general_ci; Just replace it with whatever you need (e.g. CHARSET=utf8 or CHARSET=latin1_general_ci)