I’ve set the PHP character set to
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
I’ve set the
currency column in MySQL to
varchar(1) with collation
However, the following code in PHP:
$currency = '€'; $sql = "UPDATE myTable SET currency = '$currency' WHERE user = '$user'"; mysql_query($sql);
Produces the following character in MySQL:
How can I get the
€ symbol to store properly in MySQL?
Make sure your script file, the file that contains the line
$currency = '€';
is encoded UTF-8. You should have an option to that effect in your editor’s or IDE’s “Save as” dialog.
Then make sure your connection is UTF-8 encoded as well – it is ISO-8859-1 by default.
After connecting to the database, for mySQL before 5.0.7:
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
For mySQL 5.0.7 and newer:
“Working with UTF-8 on the Web” section on this page gives a good rundown: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/4.1/unicode.html
You can convert it to the HTML code of €