Posted by Peter van Schie on 11/05/04 11:53

Hi Carlone,

> With which encoding data is saved in the DB when data is generated by PHP?

Depends on the encoding of the database table or even the column.

> Does it depend to the charset of the php page? And if the string is
> inserted in a page by the user in a form and then inserted in the database?
>
> There is any setting of mysql, or any property of the db, of the table or
> of the field?

Yes, on all of those levels you mention actually. The lowest level is
column level.

To learn more about character sets in MySQL see:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset.html

HTH.
Peter.
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