Date: 03/17/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, browser, database, sql, web

Hi, thanks in advance for any advice.

I am working on a website on my PC, and I don't know anything about servers but I wanted to develop locally, so I am using a WAMP package. I would like the site to be able to display database entries from mysql that are in Japanese, but when I call them I just see question marks instead of the Japanese (using various browsers and encoding options). I can, however, just echo Japanese text in the php file and it will display properly. Also, in phpmyadmin where I am creating the database the Japanese is displaying correctly.

I don't know if it's a problem with the server, mysql, or the script, so I don't even know where to start. I have tried it with the db, table and fields collated in both sjis_japanese_ci and utf8_unicode_ci, with the same results.

Does anyone know what the problem could be? Thanks!

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