Re: Insert Symbol into Mysql

If he´s really using a any other charset instead of utf8 table, why not using utf8_decode and utf8_decode in his php files to solve this? "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> escreveu na mensagem news:1253101315.2275.4.camel@localhost... On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 17:00 +0530, Samrat Kar wrote: > I want to insert symbols like degree, plusminus, currency along with > string > into Mysql database. Front is HTML form with javascript. Server side > scripts > are written in PHP. Please help. > > > > Regards, > > > > Samrat Kar > Two ways to do this: 1. Insert the characters as their escaped HTML codes, e.g. &#176; &#177; &#163; (for °, ± and £) 2. Set the DB to use a utf8 character set, and insert the characters directly as is, without escaping them Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk