Yes, I understand (after posting and after getting several helpful responses) that this isn't exactly an API issue, but at the same time, there's a pool of relatively knowledgeable people here who've paved the way, provided example code that uses PHP and MySql to connect with the maps, and perhaps solved similar issues. I don't really know that I'd get the same level of understanding if I posted the question on a PHP users group, and no doubt there'd be plenty of people there to jump in with a "Why not ask on the Google Maps API forum?"
The bottom line is that I'm posting here because I've received some extremely helpful responses to various questions. If you have good suggestions for alternative places to look for answers to this kind of question, I'd be more than happy to post questions there. In the meantime, I am grateful for the people who've taken their time to actually help out or make useful suggestions, and I'll hope there's still some new things I can try to get this to work properly. On Aug 31, 12:56 pm, marcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I view the data in PHPMyAdmin, it appears no problem as Japanese. > > Do I need to perhaps change the MySql column definition or do > > something prior to entering it into the database to preserve the utf-8 > > encoding? > > Are you unable to understand that this has nothing to do with the > Google Maps API, or do you simply not care? > This is about getting a japanese character from the database to the > browser. Either a PHP or a MySQL issue, not Google Maps API. > > -- > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
