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Special characters in PHP / MySQL

I have a problem. I have a piece of text in my database (MySQL 5.5.20) with characters like ‘é’ and ” ‘ ” who aren’t displaying properly after executing the MySQL query and displaying it with echo($…). With every special character I’ve inputted in the database, it displays a small question mark inside a diamond. If I look at the text in the database itself, it is an ‘é’ and ” ‘ “, so I figured the problem isn’t MySQL.

One thing I could do is str_replace everything like ” ‘ ” –> “'” on input, but then I have to do this for every character there is.
Oh and I already have included

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

and this didn’t work.

Hopefully you’ve all the information to help me, if not just say 🙂 Thanks in advance!

Milaan

Answer 1

You need to have everything in utf-8:

• The database field
• The database connection (mysql_set_charset('utf8'); in classic mysql, something like $db->exec('SET CHARACTER SET utf8'); in PDO)
• The content type (like you have already)