SQL UTF-8 encoding printing �

Question

am working on SQL databases that will have content in different languages, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Chinese ... etc. I have some content already on the database in Spanish and I have already setup the collation settings to utf8_general_ci but for some reason it still print this symbol "�". I guess is a character that has not been encoded.

This is what I did for the HTML5 code. According to W3SCHOOLS the default character encoding in HTML-5 is UTF-8, so I tried with the charset and with out it.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="es">
   <head>
      <meta charset="UTF-8">
   </head>
   <body>
      <?php
          // PRINT'S CONTENT FROM DB
      ?>
   </body>
</html>

Below is my SQL database side.

ALTER TABLE `table` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

Is there anything I am missing or anything I haven't done?

Consult http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through — Funk Forty Niner, Jul 02 '14 at 15:54
Thank you Fred, I thought I wouldn't need `mysql_set_charset` to be configured. — André Ferraz, Jul 02 '14 at 16:02

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 02 '14 at 15:59

1

Please change the setting from the following folder php/mysql setup:

// ***notice "utf8", without dash, this is a mysql encoding***
mysql_set_charset('utf8');

answered Jul 02 '14 at 15:59

Manjunatha

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '14 at 16:00

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use the function mysql_set_charset

answered Jul 02 '14 at 16:00

Bassem

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SQL UTF-8 encoding printing �

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