Bug #62516 [Opn->Nab]: Impossible to display Unicode names

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62516&edit=1 ID: 62516 Updated by: rasmus@php.net Reported by: pl at mygrworld dot com Summary: Impossible to display Unicode names -Status: Open +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: mbstring related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.3.14 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: PHP doesn't do anything to the bytes that come out of MySQL here. It is a straight binary-safe pass through so the problem can't be in PHP. I suspect you haven't set the encoding on your MySQL table correctly. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-database.html and in the user comments at the bottom it shows you how to check the current encoding. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-07-09 13:06:49] pl at mygrworld dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.print --- A BOM mark is present at the top of the PHP script, the locale is set to UTF-8, as is the HTML Content Type. In Apache, the charset is also set to utf8. When Unicode characters are requested from MySQL, neither the echo or print functions display the characters correctly within the HTML code. However, if the characters are written directly in the HTML, they are displayed correctly. Data is requested from the MySQL database using mysql_query and mysql_fetch_assoc (or_array) into a variable (e.g. $var). A variable dump is made of the data retrieved from the database, which shows the required data in the format wanted. However, using "<?php echo $var[0]; ?>", "<?php print $var[0]; ?>" or "<? =$var[0];?>" does not get the required result in the middle of the HTML code. Test script: --------------- <?php setlocale(LC_ALL,"se_NO.utf8"); $query = "SELECT town, state FROM data_table WHERE town_id = 1"; $result=mysql_query($query, $sql_id); $town=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)); ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body> <?=$town['town'];?><br> <? echo $town['state'];?> </body> </html> Expected result: ---------------- Borås Västra Götaland Actual result: -------------- Bor�s V�stra G�taland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62516&edit=1