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Asked: 2026-06-03T06:27:57+00:00

There is a MySQL database containing data with accentuated letters like é . I

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There is a MySQL database containing data with accentuated letters like é. I want to display it in my PHP page , but the problem is that there are unrecognized characters displayed because of the accent. So is there a function to convert accent to HTML code , for example é is converted to é !

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  1. Editorial Team

    Rather than using htmlentities you should use the unicode charset in your files, e.g.

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

    To be on the safe side, you can add the following meta tag to your html files:

    <html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />

    Then, make sure that your data base connection uses utf8:

    mysql_connect(...);
mysql_select_database(...);

mysql_set_charset('utf-8');

    Then, all browsers should display the special characters correctly.

    The advantage is that you can easily use unicode characters everywhere in your php files – for example the copyright sign (©) or a dash (–) – given that your php files are encoded in utf-8, too.

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