Question

My php Sql is inserting  with £ like “£” in a Database field ITEM_NAME. Actully this is an Iphone Application and I am using this ITEM_NAME for comparing values. I dont want to add  with £. I have utf8_general_ci in database for this field.

I gone through almost all the post related to that. Can any body please help me about this ?

I apologize for less explaination. I want to know can i insert £ into database without having Â. Actully once it enters in the database as £ and then it causes comparison problems.

Answer 1

You have to enforce utf-8 in several places:

• The column should accept utf-8 (done)
• The connection should be utf-8
• The form sending the value and the page showing results should have utf-8 encoding meta header and be saved as utf-8