Posted by Kevin Laurence on 09/26/66 11:33

Can anyone advise me on the use of UTF-8 in PHP and MySQL? What is the best
approach?

I would prefer to store HTML extended characters in the database as UTF-8,
but I can only get the HTML to display properly if I store character
entities (eg. ř).

Every table in my database is set to UTF-8. The web page generated by PHP is
declared as UTF-8. The HTTP response header from the server is UTF-8. The
character set of the database connection is defined as UTF-8.

I've tried using the PHP function "htmlentities" to convert the characters,
but it doesn't work for the complete UTF-8 character set.

What am I missing? Do I need to do something with the Multibyte string
functions?

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