how to convert é,ê,… in database mysql to the normal string é,â,… using php?

Question

There are the problems of data in mysql.

Some data store with the string like (1):"hello & hello ' hello è ...". And some data store with the string like (2):"hello à hello é hello ê ...".

I can solve the string (1) to the normal string, but I don't know how to convert the string (2) to the normal string?

Note : We can not change the data in the existing database :/ Also the both sample is store in the same table and the charset of the table is latin1!

Answer 1

hello à hello é hello ê probably is UTF-8 interpreted as ISO-8859-1.

You can either change the interpretation, e.g. in a browser set a charset, or convert it to ISO-8859-1 using utf8_decode().

Answer 2

EDIT-

Without changing the DB structure try this --

ini_set('default_charset', 'YOUR_CHARACTER_SET')

OR try this --

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');

Check this setting, its all bcoz of table collation

Answer 3

Use CONVERT as CONVERT ("hello à hello é hello ê ...", ascii) ....