Question

I used this tutorial: http://www.helloandroid.com/tutorials/connecting-mysql-database
This is performing awesome. But I got this name Eugène but when I try to take that name out of the database, it gives a nullPointer, however when I change it to Eugne, then it shows the name.
Is it possible to show/take characters like “è” from database to android?
I read some tutorials, but I can’t get it to work.

<?php

mysql_connect("127.0.0.1","root","root");

mysql_select_db("peopledata");

$q=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM people2 WHERE voornaam LIKE '%%'");
//$q=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM people WHERE voornaam ='""'");

while($e=mysql_fetch_assoc($q))

    $output[]=$e;

print(json_encode($output));

mysql_close();

?>

This is my android java part:

try {

            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            String line = null;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {

                sb.append(line + "\n");
            }

            is.close();
            result = sb.toString();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            android.util.Log.e("log_tag",
                    "Error converting result " + e.toString());
        }

EDIT 1

08-22 16:24:56.935: I/log_tag(14424): id: 3, name: null;

But it isn’t showing an error

Answer 1

Found an answer:
Put this line : mysql_query("SET NAMESutf8"); before you connect to database.
So from:

mysql_connect("127.0.0.1","root","root");

mysql_select_db("peopledata");

To:

mysql_connect("127.0.0.1","root","root");
mysql_query("SET NAMES `utf8`");
mysql_select_db("peopledata");