Comments on: UTF8 in PHP and MySQL http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/10/03/utf8-in-php-and-mysql/ Random thoughts about PHP, MySQL, and life in general Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Felix http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/10/03/utf8-in-php-and-mysql/comment-page-1/#comment-1744 Felix Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:26:20 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=103#comment-1744 Regarding the 2008/10/04 addition: I think using htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8"); should work fine and it would even be safer than htmlspecialchars() because it will convert more characters. :-) Regarding the 2008/10/04 addition: I think using htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT, “UTF-8″); should work fine and it would even be safer than htmlspecialchars() because it will convert more characters. :-)

]]> By: Felix http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/10/03/utf8-in-php-and-mysql/comment-page-1/#comment-1728 Felix Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:24:01 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=103#comment-1728 <a href="http://znupi.ath.cx/files/Screenshot-1.png" rel="nofollow">Here's how</a> :) Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 / Ubuntu 8.04 As you can see, the textbox can easily be widened :) Here’s how :)
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 / Ubuntu 8.04
As you can see, the textbox can easily be widened :)

]]> By: Charles http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/10/03/utf8-in-php-and-mysql/comment-page-1/#comment-1727 Charles Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:26:46 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=103#comment-1727 <blockquote cite="Felix">Off topic: can you make this text box a bit wider? I’m getting a claustrophobic kind of feeling typing here</blockquote> How's this?

Off topic: can you make this text box a bit wider? I’m getting a claustrophobic kind of feeling typing here

How’s this?

]]> By: Felix http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/2008/10/03/utf8-in-php-and-mysql/comment-page-1/#comment-1726 Felix Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:40:30 +0000 http://www.charles-reace.com/blog/?p=103#comment-1726 Interesting :). Here's my experience with encodings and stuff like that (I'm not an expert either): I built this application which had a php script that ran in the command line and that was connecting to other servers and storing data in a database. This data would contain "funny characters". The problem was not with inserting the data, which worked flawlessly (even though the tables and fields are set to the latin1_swedish_ci collation -- I think that's the default one phpmyadmin uses), but with reading the data. In phpmyadmin I would see the data just like it should appear, but in my own application it appeared incorrectly. I tried everything, utf8_decode(), iconv()m, etc. I was very frustrated and searched the web for hours, and came up with a simple solution: mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'"); Pretty similar to yours, indeed :P. I should probably convert those tables to utf8_unicode_ci, shouldn't I? Off topic: can you make this text box a bit wider? I'm getting a claustrophobic kind of feeling typing here :P Regards, Felix. PS: Yes! I'm registered! :) Interesting :). Here’s my experience with encodings and stuff like that (I’m not an expert either):
I built this application which had a php script that ran in the command line and that was connecting to other servers and storing data in a database. This data would contain “funny characters”. The problem was not with inserting the data, which worked flawlessly (even though the tables and fields are set to the latin1_swedish_ci collation — I think that’s the default one phpmyadmin uses), but with reading the data. In phpmyadmin I would see the data just like it should appear, but in my own application it appeared incorrectly. I tried everything, utf8_decode(), iconv()m, etc. I was very frustrated and searched the web for hours, and came up with a simple solution:
mysql_query(“SET NAMES ‘utf8′”);
Pretty similar to yours, indeed :P. I should probably convert those tables to utf8_unicode_ci, shouldn’t I?
Off topic: can you make this text box a bit wider? I’m getting a claustrophobic kind of feeling typing here :P

Regards,
Felix.

PS: Yes! I’m registered! :)

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