PHP, MySQL and UTF-8
The following code changes the default encoding of PHP (one of ISO encodings in most cases) to work properly with UTF-8 encoding of the database.
<?php /** * http://www.polak.ro/php-mysql-utf-8.html * * The following code forces most of PHP configurations * to work properly with MySQL and UTF-8 encoding */ ini_set( 'mbstring.language', 'UTF-8' ); ini_set( 'mbstring.internal_encoding', 'UTF-8' ); ini_set( 'mbstring.http_input', 'UTF-8' ); ini_set( 'mbstring.http_output', 'UTF-8' ); ini_set( 'mbstring.detect_order', 'auto' ); header ( 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' ); ?>
The ini_set function must be allowed by PHP configuration, it will not work under safe mode.
