Hello, Also the first query that is executed to MySQL server has to be: SET CHARACTER SET utf8 This will set the character set for current connection to UTF-8 (default is latin-1). HTH Have a great day, Denis S Gerasimov Web Developer Team Force LLC Web: www.team-force.org RU & Int'l: +7 8362-468693 email: denis.gerasimov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -----Original Message----- > From: Curt Zirzow [mailto:czirzow@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 9:02 AM > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: utf-8 in mysql but not outputting as utf-8 on web > > > > > On a web page, I set the charset to utf-8 via: > > header("Content-type: text/html; encoding: UTF-8"); > > as the top-line > > you want: > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 > > > Also, take a look at the php.ini setting: > > http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.default-charset > > > I would set that to UTF-8 and not worry about the header calls; > besides all pages should have some sort charset encoding set. > > Curt. > -- > cat .signature: No such file or directory > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php