Comments on: phpmyadmin display utf8

By: appliance repair Newport Beach

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By: development

development — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:56:47 +0000

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By: duc

duc — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:42:54 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I have been searching for a quick solution and this seems to work.

By: William Denniss

William Denniss — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:20:14 +0000

I had this same problem.

My data was not being stored correctly (though my PHP app could use it through a latin1 connection correctly).

How I fixed my data was to apply your hack to phpMyAdmin (thanks!), then export my data (so it’s now correct UTF-8), remove the hack, and re-import the data. Then set my connection in PHP to utf-8.

Full writeup on my blog: http://omegadelta.net/2010/11/23/when-you-thought-the-db-was-utf-8-but-it-wasnt/

By: When you thought the DB was UTF-8 but it wasn’t « OmegaDelta

When you thought the DB was UTF-8 but it wasn’t « OmegaDelta — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:14:58 +0000

[...] In the mysqli.dbi.lib.php and mysql.dbi.lib.php (two files), in the PMA_DBI_connect function, add the code (thanks to Mike Zhang for the code): [...]

By: Herman Santos

Herman Santos — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:42:37 +0000

You Rock!

I always use it to export DBs

By: simsik

simsik — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:59:02 +0000

thanks, it works, i was going crazy with russian and estonian

By: dingle

dingle — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:59:09 +0000

A more “correct” fix. After connecting to database, “SET NAMES utf8″ to set utf8 encoding for all incoming queries. Unfortunately, it means that all your previous data are encoded incorrectly (the default “NAMES” must be latin1). Phpmyadmin is correctly using utf8 to query myql database.
It works for me, YMMV. More details plz see Ref:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-connection.html

By: dingle

dingle — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:53:26 +0000

I found a fix somewhere else. Suppose all your tables are utf8, in your php code, right after mysql_connect(), you need to add mysql_query(“set names utf8″), which basically means all future incoming queries are encoded in utf8. Right after this command in mysql command line, i can see those chinese chars are encoded wrongly. This means you have to change all your data to utf8 (i suppose phpmyadmin is using utf8 for queries). YMMV. ref: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-connection.html

By: Sergey

Sergey — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:46:24 +0000

Much thanks!