Question

I have some text in a data table that contains this character: “•”

When I look at the text from phpMyAdmin, it looks OK, which means the right character is in the data, but if I query it with PHP and echo it, even if I use htmlentities, it will look like a weird square in IE and like � in Chrome.

I have the same problem with this two characters: “ and ”

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: I just tried utf8_encode and at least the ugly chars disappear, but this is still not what I want. My page’s char encoding is utf8, same as phpMyAdmin’s page encoding. There must be a way to show it right because phpMyAdmin does it

Answer 1

It’s encoding issue, your page encoding might be different from the database encoding . either set both database and page to same encoding or use a function for example utf8_encode($variable) or utf8_decode

Edit:
try add AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 in the htaccess