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Premke
Premke

Reputation: 57

How to encode cyrillic in mysql?

what's up? :-)
I have one problem and i hope you can help me with it.

One friend of mine have a simple solid html website and i implemented little php; CRUD system for articles... problem i came across is placing and getting cyrillic characters from mysql database.

What i want to achive is next:
In the main navigation there are some separated sections, whose names, ids and item's order i want to place in mysql and than to pull names and to put each name as a link. Names are supposed to be cyrillic characters.

The problem comes when i, using php mysql_fetch_assoc function, try to display names which are inserted with cyrillic characters in database row, collation of row is utf8_general_ci, and i end with ????? insted of original characters. If i submit cyrillic characters via submit form to mysql it shows something like this У.

How can i solve this, thanks in advance!? :-)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 17422

Answers (4)

Marc
Marc

Reputation: 5465

For anyone having more complex issues with legacy project upgrades from versions before PHP 5.6 and MYSQL 5.1 to PHP 7 & Latest MySQL/Percona/MariaDB etc...

If the project uses utf8_encode($value) you can either try removing the function from the value being prepared and use the accepted answer for setting UTF-8 encoding for all input.

--- OR ---

Try replacing utf8_encode($value) with mb_convert_encoding($value, 'utf-8')

PDO USERS

If you are using PDO here are two ways how to set utf8:

$options = [
    \PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8'
];

new \PDO($dsn, $username, $passwd, $options);

--- OR ---

$dsn = 'mysql:host=localhost;charset=utf8;'

new \PDO($dsn, $username, $passwd);

I can confirm that mb_convert_encoding($value, 'utf-8') to SQL table using utf8_unicode_ci works for Cyrillic and Umlaut.

Upvotes: 0

Frankie
Frankie

Reputation: 31

I had the same problem until I encoded the 'Collation' column in my table to 'utf8_bin'.

Upvotes: 3

The Surrican
The Surrican

Reputation: 29874

if its really mysql fetch assoc messing up you should try: mysql-set-charset

from the docs:

Note:

This is the preferred way to change the charset. Using mysql_query() to execute SET NAMES .. is not recommended.

also make sure your files are saved as utf8 and check iconv_set_encoding / iconv_get_encoding

Upvotes: 1

Dejan Marjanović
Dejan Marjanović

Reputation: 19380

Make sure you call this after connecting to database.

mysql_query("SET NAMES UTF8");

Also make sure that HTML file has charset meta tag set to UTF-8 or send header before output.

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");

Upvotes: 9

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