PHP，MySQL，字符无法正确显示。

Question

I have a database that has the names of players (it's stats db for game), but when i fetch the player names with mysqli query i'm getting some wierd results.

For example the characters "Α†Ω" are displayed as "? ?".

• When i open the table in phpmyadmin the characters are displayed correcly
• html content type is utf-8 (i even copied the meta from phpmyadmin just to be sure.)
• the database and it's tables are utf8_general_ci

What can i do to display these (and other) characters correctly?

Answer 1

You have to set the connection charset to utf8.

Execute the following function: http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.set-charset.php

Or execute the following query:

 SET character_set_results = 'utf8', character_set_client = 'utf8', character_set_connection = 'utf8', character_set_database = 'utf8', character_set_server = 'utf8

Answer 2

While fetching the result at the client side from database. You have to specify about connection charset. So it is better to mention charset in the mysql config file. After successful connection, write the following code line:

mysqli_set_charset($con,"utf8"); // Change character set to utf8

Answer 3

使用mysqli，您必须在建立连接后运行此代码：

mysqli_set_charset($conn, "utf8");

Answer 4

You need to set the charaset for the connection from php. Put the following code after connecting to the database.

mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");

That is if you are using mysql ext.