[CODE4LIB] Unicode from MySQL display problem
Hello, all. I'm going a little crazy with getting some unicode data from MySQL to display properly in a web page, and wondered if you had any ideas. The records are in MySQL (4.1.21) with a utf8_unicode_ci collation. When I view in phpmyadmin, everything looks fine. If I run my query in phpmyadmin, everything still looks fine, I can cut and paste the record into the web page, and it displays fine, but when I grab the data from MySQL it conks out: http://www.ithacalibrary.com/research/unicode_test.php I assume the problem is with my query or the connection, but I'm not sure how I should do it. I've tried explicitly setting the character set like so: SET names = 'utf8_unicodel_ci'; SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8_unicode_ci' But this is voodoo to me--just saw it somewhere on the internets. Am I missing something obvious? Any ideas? Thanks, Andrew
Re: [CODE4LIB] Unicode from MySQL display problem
Don't have experience but a search showed that you may have to set-up
your mysql connection from PHP to use utf8 as php isn't good with
unicode. They recommended this:
$result = mysql_query('SET NAMES utf8;');
$result = mysql_query('SET CHARACTER_SET utf8;');
You can apparently also set up your mysql to default all connections
to utf8. Here was where I found it:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/Q_21957635.html
Eby
On 4/10/07, Andrew Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, all. I'm going a little crazy with getting some unicode data
from MySQL to display properly in a web page, and wondered if you had
any ideas.
The records are in MySQL (4.1.21) with a utf8_unicode_ci collation.
When I view in phpmyadmin, everything looks fine. If I run my query
in phpmyadmin, everything still looks fine, I can cut and paste the
record into the web page, and it displays fine, but when I grab the
data from MySQL it conks out:
http://www.ithacalibrary.com/research/unicode_test.php
I assume the problem is with my query or the connection, but I'm not
sure how I should do it. I've tried explicitly setting the character
set like so:
SET names = 'utf8_unicodel_ci';
SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8_unicode_ci'
But this is voodoo to me--just saw it somewhere on the internets.
Am I missing something obvious? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andrew
Re: [CODE4LIB] Unicode from MySQL display problem
Thanks a lot, Ryan--that did it.
I thought I'd ruled that out as the problem, but I guess I had set it
up incorrectly . . . .
Andrew
On 4/10/07, Ryan Eby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't have experience but a search showed that you may have to set-up
your mysql connection from PHP to use utf8 as php isn't good with
unicode. They recommended this:
$result = mysql_query('SET NAMES utf8;');
$result = mysql_query('SET CHARACTER_SET utf8;');
You can apparently also set up your mysql to default all connections
to utf8. Here was where I found it:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/Q_21957635.html
Eby
On 4/10/07, Andrew Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, all. I'm going a little crazy with getting some unicode data
from MySQL to display properly in a web page, and wondered if you had
any ideas.
The records are in MySQL (4.1.21) with a utf8_unicode_ci collation.
When I view in phpmyadmin, everything looks fine. If I run my query
in phpmyadmin, everything still looks fine, I can cut and paste the
record into the web page, and it displays fine, but when I grab the
data from MySQL it conks out:
http://www.ithacalibrary.com/research/unicode_test.php
I assume the problem is with my query or the connection, but I'm not
sure how I should do it. I've tried explicitly setting the character
set like so:
SET names = 'utf8_unicodel_ci';
SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8_unicode_ci'
But this is voodoo to me--just saw it somewhere on the internets.
Am I missing something obvious? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andrew
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Andrew Darby
Web Services Librarian
Ithaca College Library
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/
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