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    <p>I'm not sure if my question's title is clear enough but I'll try my best to explain.</p> <p>I really am not sure about how PHP executes the function <code>mysql_query</code> in terms of retrieval and storage of strings. Does it recognize any character set encodings used in the table?</p> <p>And does my browser by default override any character encodings sent through <code>&lt;forms&gt;</code>, meaning if I put 'ëä' in any <code>&lt;input&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;textarea&gt;</code> will these characters be sent as they are?</p> <p>Next, how would PHP handle these characters? Can I force PHP to write these characters as they are into the database?</p> <p>Knowing how I made my database tables, and their corresponding collations, how could I force PHP to return the correct string values that were in the database?</p> <p>Hehe sorry for being too lazy to google, but I ran through this problem before in another table and thought I found a solution but I was thinking that maybe I just ticked my broswer's options to use by default a UTF-8 encoding?</p> <p>Okay so in this case then the user's browser really has power over what type of character encoding they would use to render a page... are there any workarounds?</p> <h2>See:</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/279170/utf-8-all-the-way-through">UTF-8 all the way through</a>,</li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/202205/how-to-make-mysql-handle-utf-8-properly">How to make mysql handle UTF-8 properly</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/140728/best-practices-in-php-and-mysql-with-international-strings">Best practices in PHP and MySQL with international strings</a></li> </ul>
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