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I have to store hindi text in a MySQL database, fetch it using a PHP script and display it on a webpage. I did the following:
I created a database and set its encoding to UTF-8 and also the collation to utf8_bin. I added a varchar field in the table and set it to accept UTF-8 text in the charset property.
Then I set about adding data to it. Here I had to copy data from an existing site. The hindi text looks like this: सूर्योदय:05:30
I directly copied this text into my database and used the PHP code echo(utf8_encode($string)) to display the data. Upon doing so the browser showed me "??????".
When I inserted the UTF equivalent of the text by going to "view source" in the browser, however, सूर्योदय translates into सूर्योदय.
If I enter and store सूर्योदय in the database, it converts perfectly.
So what I want to know is how I can directly store सूर्योदय into my database and fetch it and display it in my webpage using PHP.
Also, can anyone help me understand if there's a script which when I type in सूर्योदय, gives me सूर्योदय?
Solution Found
I wrote the following sample script which worked for me. Hope it helps someone else too
<html> <head> <title>Hindi</title></head> <body> <?php include("connection.php"); //simple connection setting $result = mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8"); //the main trick $cmd = "select * from hindi"; $result = mysql_query($cmd); while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { echo ($myrow[0]); } ?> </body> </html> The dump for my database storing hindi utf strings is
CREATE TABLE `hindi` ( `data` varchar(1000) character set utf8 collate utf8_bin default NULL ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; INSERT INTO `hindi` VALUES ('सूर्योदय'); Now my question is, how did it work without specifying "META" or header info?
Thanks!
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Did you set proper charset in the HTML Head section?
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> or you can set content type in your php script using -
header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' ); There are already some discussions here on StackOverflow - please have a look
How to make MySQL handle UTF-8 properly setting utf8 with mysql through php
PHP/MySQL with encoding problems
So what i want to know is how can i directly store सूर्योदय into my database and fetch it and display in my webpage using PHP.
I am not sure what you mean by "directly storing in the database" .. did you mean entering data using PhpMyAdmin or any other similar tool? If yes, I have tried using PhpMyAdmin to input unicode data, so it has worked fine for me - You could try inputting data using phpmyadmin and retrieve it using a php script to confirm. If you need to submit data via a Php script just set the NAMES and CHARACTER SET when you create mysql connection, before execute insert queries, and when you select data. Have a look at the above posts to find the syntax. Hope it helps.
** UPDATE ** Just fixed some typos etc
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