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Posted by Julien Demoor on 10/24/05 20:37
Not sure since I have some problems regarding encoding, but it should be
enough to have the html tag matching your db's encoding. Php shouldn't
care.
JD
slavi.marinov@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a simple question on PHP and the way it handles strings.
>
> Let's say I have a database and a php script that communicates with the
> database. The database has some kind of character encoding - let's say
> UTF-8, UTF-16, or something different.
>
> When I select some string from the database, for example:
>
> $res = mysql_query("SELECT movie_name FROM my_table");
> $row = mysql_fetch_row($res);
> echo $row[0];
>
> the database will return the movie_name field in a correctly-encoded
> way.
>
> My question is, how do you tell the PHP interpreter what encoding to
> use when displaying the text that the mysql queries return? In other
> words, will the $row[0] be displayed correctly regardless the database
> encoding, provided the database encoding and the HTML <meta> tags are
> the same, or do I have to set the PHP encoding in some config file?
> What character representation does PHP use when working with strings?
>
> Best Regards,
> Slavi
>
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