It's best to use UTF8 both for database collation and html content-type. If you are using MySQL, you will also need to run the following query right after when the DB connection is initialised (just once):
SET NAMES 'utf8'; hth, Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ PHP Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 1:45 PM Subject: [phpug] Japanese character encoding?? > > Im trying to make a Japanese learning site that will have Japanese > characters and English explanations etc. But I cannot get my Japanese > characters to print from my database properly :( > > I believe I have the appropriate meta tag ... <meta http- > equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS"> > > If I write the Japanese directly into the HTML all is fine but when I > call it from mysql all I get is ?'s Viewing the data in phpmyadmin > works aswell. > > Ive tried all the different collation types in my database and still > no luck. > Ive never done any foreign language sites before this is really new to > me can anyone please help? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
