Question

i want to insert the “ã”, “é”, “ó”, “ç”( Dvorak International) like text in Portuguese-Brazil language.
i set the collation type in database is:
utf8_general_ci
but its not working.i am trying to paste it here ,but here it is showing fine.but in database it is not showing in proper way.

So ,please tell me which collation is right for Portuguese.

My HTML Page character encoding is:

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

Answer 1

UTF-8 should work fine for Portuguese language.

Try this:

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

edit:

Then 2 things might be happening:

1. the encoding in the database is wrong for the strings inside it
2. The file encoded wrongly. (is encoded in something else besides UTF-8).