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UTF-8 all the way through

I am scraping data with curl from a web which have word Café. It looks fine when i echo it but after insert in mysql data base it become Café
How to handle it.

Answer 1

PHP: internal encoding, file encoding

Runtime configuration:

mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");

And set the file encoding in you text editor to UTF8 without BOM (for example in Notepad++: Encoding menu, then Convert to UTF8 without BOM)

MySQL: table, column encoding/collation

Set all encoding and collation to UTF8 in you editor/designer (PhpMyAdmin).

Between them: connection encoding/collation

I don’t know what driver are you using, for mysqli (and for mysql but please don’t use that):

"SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'"
'SET NAMES utf8'

PDO has it’s own configuration for this, see php.net.

Response encoding

Set it with a header call:

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