php htmlentities显示utf-8编码字符

Question

Please hove on the first thumbnail here: http://dev.holiday.ge/?s=bar

?????? will be displayed. This is utf-8 text and I run it through php htmlentities()

Can someone explain what is happening?

Do I have to encode htmlentities to make it display utf-8 text display correctly?

Any thoughts?

thanks!

Answer 1

I know that my comment helped to fixed your issue.

Here is as answer

echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_IGNORE, "UTF-8");

Answer 2

Have you checked the field's Collation is utf8_general_ci also have you used

Also have you added this code after you select the DB by using mysql_select_db('dbName');

mysql_query('SET character_set_results=utf8');
mysql_query('SET names=utf8');
mysql_query('SET character_set_client=utf8');
mysql_query('SET character_set_connection=utf8');
mysql_query('SET character_set_results=utf8');
mysql_query('SET collation_connection=utf8_general_ci');

Comment it pls.