why do i have to use mb_convert_encoding($name,'ISO-8859-15','utf-8') to get accented chars to display?
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23-02-2021 - |
Question
the data im working with here is off of a page that uses utf8 encoding
i've set my database and fields to use utf8_general_ci
now for whatever reason, i have to use the following code on the variable in order to have it display accented characters correctly in the database:
mb_convert_encoding($name,'ISO-8859-15','utf-8');
this makes no sense to me. why do i have to convert it to ISO-8859-15 when phpmyadmin is in utf8, the data is in utf8, and the database and table fields are in utf8?
Solution
You most likely have not set your database connection to UTF-8, so your database expects you to send ISO-8859 encoded data. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-connection.html
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