adminer-4.0.3.php files seem to be ANSI encoded not utf8. Try utf8 encoding it before usage: http://stackoverflow.com/a/64889/1935500 Aziz On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Joshua Kehn <josh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 13 Feb 2014, at 1:19, Ian Evans wrote: How can I check if the browser >> is submitting the form as UTF-8? I guess I >> >> can see if Firefox's HTTP Live Headers will show any info. >> >> Looking at the adminer source the <form> tags don't have the >> accept-charset="UTF-8" that my own forms have, but considering that >> adminer >> _only_ supports UTF-8 (and I appear to be the edge case) I don't know if >> that would be the issue. >> > > My guess is the browser is sending the data in some encoding (not UTF-8) > that the server is trying to guess at and convert it to UTF-8. It's > probably guessing poorly. > > Or I'm completely wrong. Just throwing out ideas here 3AM local time ;) > > --jk > >