Escaping Special character

Question

I am inserting data in mysql table , prior to that i am escape sequencing variable

$data = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$data);

Every thing is working fine , but when i am getting data like this

$data = " SHR′ n(X′) ";

its escaping data like this

SHR′ n(X′)

which is not inserting in database and giveing error, So my question is how can i make it to escape this kind of characters.

Note:I have created a table with utf8_general_ci as collation.

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this

after establish connection use

mysqli_set_charset ($con, "utf8");

Answer 2

Try to set the charset to utf8 .

$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");
/* change character set to utf8 */
if (!$mysqli->set_charset("utf8")) {
    printf("Error loading character set utf8: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
} else {
    printf("Current character set: %s\n", $mysqli->character_set_name());
}