Fetching hindi text from database mysql

Question

i am saving the hindi text into the database. It is saving in db as "हिन्डि".

But while fetching i am not able to fetch the same hindi text instead it is fetching the above mentioned uniciode characters

Answer 1

First check for UTF8 compatibility with below query. If it supports you should see the output as “Character_set_system”| “UTF8″

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ‘character_set_system’;

if its not run below query to change it

ALTER TABLE yourtable MODIFY text VARCHAR(200) CHARACTER SET UTF8;

Then execute following query before inserting into the table:

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 collation_connection=utf8_general_ci');