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Asked: 2026-06-07T21:03:13+00:00

I’ve such a problem , first take a look at mysql table => CREATE

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I’ve such a problem , first take a look at mysql table =>

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users(
id int(4) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(40) CHARSET utf8 COLLATE 'utf8_unicode_ci' NOT NULL,
surname VARCHAR(40) CHARSET utf8 COLLATE 'utf8_unicode_ci' NOT NULL,
);

It is storing data successfully , but when I’m trying to retrieve this info to my .php file (which encoding is also utf8) it still showing me question marks (?????), why ? How can I solve it ?

UPDATE

Something I’m not doing well. So I’ve 2 php files, one is classA.php file in which I’ve defined class which is retrieving info from database and I’ve included this file (classA.php) into my default.php file where I want to see data.
I’ve exactly same table which is written above , and I’m writing 

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

in the first line in default.php, but it still doesn’t work, thanks for advices :))

SECOND UPDATE

This script I’ve in classA.php file , and its encoding is default like default.php file encoding. I just added in default.php file in first line this

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8");

but it still doesn’t work.

Third update

sql =>

create table ok(
id int(2) not null auto_increment primary key,
name varchar(20) charset utf8 not null);

and php file

<?php
 header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
 ?>
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
        <title>hello</title>
          <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    </head>
     <body>


     <?php
        $con = mysqli_connect("host","user","pass","db");

       if (mysqli_connect_errno()==0){
       if ($r = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM ok")){
    mysqli_set_charset($con,"utf8");
    while ($d = mysqli_fetch_assoc($r)){
        echo $d['name'] . "<br>";
           }
           }
          }

            if (isset($con)){
               mysqli_close($con);
             }
             ?>


               </body>
               </html>

I’ve inserted in ok table this=>

insert into ok(name) values("one"),("ერთი"),("two"),("ორი");

PS. special characters are Georgian 🙂

and it results English characters fine and Georgians with question marks 🙁

It doesn’t work anyways 🙁

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  1. Editorial Team

    The fact that the PHP file is in UTF-8 doesn’t necessarily mean that the data coming from/ going to the database is in UTF-8 too.

    You didn’t mention which extension you’re using, but:

    • For mysql use mysql_set_charset($link,'utf8');

    • For mysqli use mysqli->set_charset('utf8') or the same as above with mysqli_

    • For PDO, when you connect include charset:utf8 in the DSN string.

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