Question

I have a mysql database charset utf8_general_ci. All fields are utf8_general_ci to.
And I read with php the DB to this header

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

but a/o/u with dots (on top) are displayed as ?.

could somebody help me please?

Answer 1

When you make connection to MySQL server, query SET NAMES utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci first to set connection’s encoding.

Example when using mysqli extension:

$mysqli = new mysqli('localhost','user','password','database_name');
$mysqli->query("SET NAMES utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci");
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT 'Ä/ä' AS data");