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Asked: 2026-05-26T20:14:52+00:00

I have a long description field in a products table with a data type:

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I have a long description field in a products table with a data type: text. The collation is latin1_swedish_ci for reference.

For products in my database I need a superscript 2, bullet points for a list and line breaks. For example when the bullet points output on the page they output as:

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Is there any way round this so i can display my long description correctly with line breaks too?

$product = $this->MProducts->getProduct($id);
$data['product'] = $product;

<?php echo "<p style='clear:both; padding-top:10px;'>".$product['longdesc']."</p>";?>

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have to ensure that you’re retrieving the right character set from MySQL. 

    SET NAMES 'charset_name' COLLATE 'collation_name'

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-connection.html

    And you have to ensure that the string is unicode after you receive it.
    http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php

    And you have to encode html entities if you’re outputting to a browser. Specifying a charset here is important too.
    http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

    Hope that helps…

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