php - Reading signs like ? ? ? ? ? from MySql database

Question

I have problems reading signs '?', '?', '?', '?', '?' from MySQL database.

I have tried few suggestions that I found on the internet, but none worked. I am looking for correct combination of charset in the database and in PHP file. So far I have always used UTF.

Answer 1

• Set table and db charset, collation, etc. to utf8_general_ci

• After establishing connection from php, be sure to do SET NAMES UTF8. That step is very important.

• Make sure you saved all PHP files using utf-8 encoding (that was common cause several years ago)

• <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

I'm from Slovenia, where we use these 'special chars', and believe me, this is our everyday problem ;)