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Asked: 2026-05-20T15:57:51+00:00

I want to take a string and store it in a MYSQL db. This

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I want to take a string and store it in a MYSQL db. This string will be a HTML string and it can have any character encoding or be written in any language.

How can I safely save this in my MYSQL DB without affecting the HTML string so that I can later retrieve it as it is?

In addition, the field it will be stored in is of data type text and has a collation of latin1_swedish_ci will this effect it in anyway?

I am currently doing this:

htmlentities($html, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')

But I don’t think the above will work for all character sets. I mean how will German or Japanese characters be affected?

Thanks for any help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Why not base64 encode it for storage, and then decode it after?

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