On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 17:00 +0530, Samrat Kar wrote:
> I want to insert symbols like degree, plusminus, currency along with string
> into Mysql database. Front is HTML form with javascript. Server side scripts
> are written in PHP. Please help.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Samrat Kar
>
Two ways to do this:
1. Insert the characters as their escaped HTML codes, e.g. °
± £ (for °, ± and £)
2. Set the DB to use a utf8 character set, and insert the
characters directly as is, without escaping them
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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