URL中的特殊字符，用于选择数据库

Question

I am trying to use special danish characters (æøå) in the URL as GET parameters. So for instance I have this URL:

     http://example.com?name=åge

that URL will get converted into the ASCII equivalent automatically, so in the URL it will read:

    http://example.com?name=%E5ge

When i access and print out that value it works just fine, and displays that parameter as: åge

However, i am using that to select stuff in my DB, and this won't work. If i use the ASCII version in the URL, it won't select anything form the DB and just give me an empty result. If i force the URL to not use ASCII, so it is: http://example.com?name=åge it will work fine when selecting from the DB, but when I display the parameter it shows as this: Ã¥

I have no idea how to get around this. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I would transform the parameter to UTF-8 and then prepare the database for a UTF-8 query, with something like this:

$name = utf8_encode($_GET['name']);
mysqli_query($mysqli_connector, "SET NAMES UTF8");

And then, prepare your query.

That should work.

I hope that helps!