Comments on: MySQL and UTF-8 — no more question marks!

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:32:31 +0000

Thanks, after searching for 20 minutes, the solution on this page fixed the problem I was having!

By: moein

moein — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:43:41 +0000

thanks a lot!!
i wasted my time like an hour
your post saved my time!!
thanks again!

By: Nikolai

Nikolai — Sun, 09 May 2010 08:28:46 +0000

THANKS MAN THIS WORKED AFTER YEARS OF ENCODING PROBLEMS.

By: Andrey Ponteleev

Andrey Ponteleev — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:45:52 +0000

Best from all articles!
post it in earth knowledge base & translate to all languages :)

By: Vidis

Vidis — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:34:21 +0000

Thanks a bunch, this really helped out.

By: zak

zak — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:40:28 +0000

I am trying to write persian/farsi texts into the database using MYSQL, but it doesnt seems to be working?
any ideas and suggestions would be appreciated.. thanks alot in advance

By: Andes Culture & Attractions

Andes Culture & Attractions — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:35:42 +0000

Thanks a lot. Finally a tip that solve it all. Thank you very much!!
Al.

By: PEAR DB_DataObject + MySQL + UTF8 | Programador PHP freelance

PEAR DB_DataObject + MySQL + UTF8 | Programador PHP freelance — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:01:10 +0000

[...] Resulta que en una codificación he utilizado un MySQL con el charset en UTF8. Todo funcionaba bien si la carga de los datos se realizaba mediante la interfaz web pero en el momento se insertaba algún registro mediante phpMyAdmin con algún caracter especial, como un acento, este aparecía representado con caracteres extraños en la interfaz web. El problema es bastante sencillo, MySQL permite definir el charset a varios niveles de comunicación de forma que podemos enviar los datos en UTF8 pero recibirlos en latin1, por ejemplo. Podéis ver más información aquí [...]

By: Wladimir Jr

Wladimir Jr — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:00:37 +0000

Your article solved my problems.
Thanks a lot 1000 times :D

By: Jonah Bishop

Jonah Bishop — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:17:08 +0000

Thanks for the great article, Markus. It answered a number of questions for me!

By: antares

antares — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:57:37 +0000

Excellent guide. Moreover, you can set the init_connect system variable in my.cnf file to ‘SET NAMES utf8′. For each client that connects, server executes this statement automatically and you don’t have to execute this statement by yourself. Set it up in the [mysqld] section:

.
.
[mysqld]
init_connect=’SET NAMES utf8′
.
.

The init_connect statement is not executed for super-user logins.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:37:18 +0000

thanks a lot! question marks have been haunting me for a while, not anymore!

àòçèéùì!

By: zakir hyder

zakir hyder — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:29:09 +0000

thank you for your posting. it helped me a lot.
i am using PHP Version 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.3 and mysql 5. i am able to save charecters like solo porque sí and ğüşiçöı. i can see in my phpmyadmin but when i try to see my own page i see ?�?i��? this for ğüşiçöı. i have used both in php file header(’Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8′ ); and html file
can you help meplz?

By: Ahmed Sagarwala

Ahmed Sagarwala — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:05:44 +0000

I’ve been looking at the MySQL manual and various PHP articles for about an hour now. Thank you for posting this.

I can now get back to programming making my clients happy!!!

Much respect,
A. Sagarwala (Toronto, Canada)

By: Lars

Lars — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:21:00 +0000

Cheers from Copenhagen.

Excellent article – you just helped me a lot! Thank you very much!

By: Manojkumar

Manojkumar — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:28:29 +0000

hello All,
I importing CSV data files which having huge data in unicode text format.

Data goes properly into mysql. It show me in phpmyadmin. when i choose to edit it returns MySQL returned an empty result set (i.e. zero rows).

SELECT *
FROM `cosmos`.`tbl_hotel`
WHERE CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`hotel_id`
USING utf8 ) = ‘996′
AND CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`hotel_name`
USING utf8 ) = ‘Lampang River Lodge’
AND CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`hotel_address_i`
USING utf8 ) = ‘”330 moo 11 chompoo district, amphur muang”‘
AND CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`hotel_address_ii`
USING utf8 ) = ”
AND CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`city_name`
USING utf8 ) = ‘Lampang’
AND CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`country_name`
USING utf8 ) = ‘Thailand’
AND CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`min_show_rate`
USING utf8 ) = ‘55′
AND CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`linkurl`
USING utf8 ) = ‘http://www.agoda.com/asia/thailand/lampang/lampang_river_lodge.html’
AND CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`hotel_description`
USING utf8 ) = ‘”The Lampang River Lodge is convenient to everything Lampang has to offer, and is only 10 km (6 miles) away from Lampang Intern’
AND CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`star_rating`
USING utf8 ) = ‘3′
AND CONVERT( `tbl_hotel`.`hotel_images`
USING utf8 ) = ‘http://images.agoda.com/hotels/996/main/996.jpg\r’;

please tell me what i do for editing.

also i want search operation on same table.

when i get text from text box & retrives data from table & fire like query it show nothing (returns empty);

Please give me solution for same
Thanks in advance

By: Yaz Okulu

Yaz Okulu — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:00:31 +0000

does anyone knows if there is any other information about this subject in other languages?

By: Balos

Balos — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:55:20 +0000

more advanced latin2 test:

lowercase:

csíkcsőszopó pürégöbös hűsítőváza

uppercase:

SZOPÓCSÉSZECSŰRŐ CSOMÓKURVAMEGSTRICIVANAWESTENDBEN BÜDÖSTAHÓBUNKÓSEGGNYŰVELŐSZOPÓFEJŰ
BUZIÁLLATJOBBOSKÖCSÖGÖKKELVANTELEAZORSZÁG
DELESZAROMMERTMÁRELHÚZTAMONNANHAHAHA

By: Bulat

Bulat — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:22:12 +0000

Thanks for the article. Everything that one have had to look up through the whole manual to collect all the pieces is now presented in one article. Great work!

I’ve noticed that specifying this (I’m using cp1251 user interface and UTF-8 database):
init_connect = ‘SET CHARACTER SET cp1251′
in my.ini file doesn’t work for me.

Where as executing ‘SET CHARACTER SET cp1251′ query at the beginning of SQL session works fine.

By: jobbos

jobbos — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:51:27 +0000

Latin2 test: Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép