If he´s really using a any other charset instead of utf8 table, why not using utf8_decode and utf8_decode in his php files to solve this? "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu na mensagem news:1253101315.2275.4.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxx On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 17:00 +0530, Samrat Kar wrote: > I want to insert symbols like degree, plusminus, currency along with > string > into Mysql database. Front is HTML form with javascript. Server side > scripts > are written in PHP. Please help. > > > > Regards, > > > > Samrat Kar > Two ways to do this: 1. Insert the characters as their escaped HTML codes, e.g. ° ± £ (for °, ± and £) 2. Set the DB to use a utf8 character set, and insert the characters directly as is, without escaping them Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
