when I show records from table , sometimes show in records this symbol. I want to understand that why its come sometimes.? i don't want it. �

Question

this symbol ( ) show sometime during data shows from table. i have used PHP, MYSQL for my project.

why this symbol come? give me suggestion or hint about this.
thanks in advance..

Answer 1

usually means you've got a character set mismatch somewhere, and utf-8 data is being displayed in a non-utf context, eg iso-8859. ensure that EVERY stage of your pipeline is the same charset, or at least connected with appropriate translation logic:

browser -> server -> database -> data table -> database -> server -> browser.

any mismatches anywhere and you get mangled text.

Answer 2

specially this comes for special characters . so before inserting in DB encode the value. use htmlspecialchars() for encoding. and at the time of retreaving decode the text. use htmlspecialchars_decode() for decoding.