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28 questions linked to/from Fixing broken UTF-8 encoding
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output gibberish unicode text properly from mysql database [duplicate]
In my mysql database field the unicode text are like this
कà¤3⁄4ठमà¤3⁄4डà\Œà¤, à\ ̈à\a मà¤3⁄4ठ̃ / ठ̧ंà¤μिधà¤3⁄4ठ̈ठ̧à¤à¤3⁄4 ठ̧दठ̧à\ठ̄कà\‹ रिकà\त à\¬ ठ̧िटकà¤3⁄4 à¤2à¤3⁄4गà¤...
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Trouble with UTF-8 characters; what I see is not what I stored
I tried to use UTF-8 and ran into trouble.
I have tried so many things; here are the results I have gotten:
???? instead of Asian characters. Even for European text, I got Se?or for Señor.
Strange ...
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Using str_split on a UTF-8 encoded string
I'm currently working on a project, and instead of using regular MySQL queries I thought I'd go ahead and learn how to use PDO.
I have a table called contestants, both the database, the table, and ...
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What are the differences between utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci? [duplicate]
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What's the difference between utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci
I've got two options for unicode that look promising for a mysql database.
utf8_general_ci unicode (...
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Converting latin1_swedish_ci to utf8 with PHP
I have a database filled with values like âTM\•â—âTM\ Dhaka âTM\•â—âTM\ (Which should be ♥•●くろまる♥ Dhaka ♥•●くろまる♥) as I didnt specify the collation while creating the database.
Now I want to Fix it. I cannot ...
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Accented characters stored in MySQL database
I have a webapp that stores French text -- which potentially includes accented characters -- in a MySQL database. When data is retrieved directly through PHP, accented characters become gibbirish. For ...
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Ensure a string is UTF-8 encoded
In my application I read a csv file and display contents to the user. But there is a problem with encoding.
I have two csv files example1.csv and example2.csv. I have both opened in notepad++, which ...
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json_encode(): Invalid UTF-8 sequence in argument (php)
I have list of player name. But the problem is the player name contains some non utf-8 characters. so i am having following error.
json_encode(): Invalid UTF-8 sequence in argument
i have used ...
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Convert characters pasted from Word in PHP and MySQL
I'm having a real nightmare parsing data from one database where much of the text has been pasted from Word across into another database. The data needs to be washed through the parser each day so it ...
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database issue with arabic encoding
I have a wordpress website and for some reason all records values that are in Arabic language change to be like this Ù...وقØ1 Ø§Ù„Ø·Ø ̈ Ø§Ù„Ù†ÙØ3ÙŠ although the database and it's tables collation ...
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UTF8 characters not printed as such in Drupal's HTML
I am trying to debug a nasty utf-8 problem, and do not know where to start.
A page contains the word 'categorieën', which should be categorieën. Clearly something is wrong with the UTF-8. This ...
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Java library to fix incorrectly encoded text using heuristics
I'm dealing with an external web service that is giving me incorrectly encoded (and or corrupted) Strings (UTF-8) that were most likely either ISO LATIN or WINDOWS-1252 but are now UTF-8 (and or a ...
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Can't get rid of diamonds with question marks in the middle since php 5.6 switch
Rackspace upgraded their servers to php 5.6/apache 2.4 and ever since then, I have had several sites show these strange characters. I have gone all through google to apply patches/fixes but ...
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UTF-8 charset issues from MySQL in PHP
this is really doing my nut.....
all relevant PHP Output scripts set headers (in this case only one file - the main php script):
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
HTML meta is set in ...
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Loop through MySQL database changing apostrophes with UTF-8 version
I've been having some trouble with my website + database, the content was added to the database using a java app using some unknown charset and they are being displayed in PHP/HTML using UTF-8 <...