Posted by Steve on 10/09/07 22:04

Hi. I need to store chinese characters and Pinyins in a mysql database
and then read them from php and using the GD library and
imagettftext() function to create an image based on a chinese ttf font
of the chinese characters.

I have tried setting the encoding in the database as UTF-8 and BIG5
but the characters display (both in MYSQL and when displayed via PHP)
as question marks.

Can anyone help?

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