i can't get kanji character outside MySQL, kanjis are shown from phpmyadmin normally but when dragged out into variable it can't, they became ???, already try to add
<meta charset=utf-8 />
but still doesn't work. here's part of my code
<?php
include_once('class/word.php');
include_once('conn/connection.php');
$conn = get_koneksi();
$sql = "SELECT * FROM tb WHERE id=? LIMIT 1";
$stm= $conn -> prepare($sql);
$stm -> bindParam(1, $_REQUEST['id']);
$stm-> execute();
if ($stm-> rowCount() > 0) {
$row = $stm-> fetch();
#this result nothing
echo "<script>alert(".$row['kanji'].");</script>";
$item = new word($row['id'],$row['word'],$row['kanji'],$row['length']);
#this result undefined -> $item->getKanji() is blank in alert
echo "<script>alert(".$item->getKanji().");</script>";
#this result ???? character instead kanjis
echo "<div style='width:700px;position:absolute;'><h1>".$item->getKanji()."</h1></div>";
}else echo "No Data Found !";
?>
How to solve this still in PDO usage ?
