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    <p>I am learning PHP programming, so I have setup testing database and try to do various things with it. So situation is like that:</p> <p>Database collation is utf8_general_ci.</p> <p>There is table "books" created by query</p> <pre><code>create table books ( isbn char(13) not null primary key, author char(50), title char(100), price float(4,2) ); </code></pre> <p>Then it is filled with some sample data - note that text entries are in russian. This query is saved as utf-8 without BOM .sql and executed.</p> <pre><code>insert into books values ("5-8459-0046-8", "Майкл Морган", "Java 2. Руководство разработчика", 34.99), ("5-8459-1082-X", "Кристофер Негус", "Linux. Библия пользователя", 24.99), ("5-8459-1134-6", "Марина Смолина", "CorelDRAW X3. Самоучитель", 24.99), ("5-8459-0426-9", "Родерик Смит", "Сетевые средства Linux", 49.99); </code></pre> <p>When I review contents of created table via phpMyAdmin, I get correct results. </p> <p>When I retrieve data from this table and try to display it via php, I get question marks instead of russian symbols. Here is piece of my php code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt; &lt;title&gt;Books&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;?php header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); mysqli_set_charset('utf8'); @ $db = new mysqli('localhost', 'login', 'password', 'database'); $query = "select * from books where ".$searchtype." like '%".$searchterm."%'"; $result = $db-&gt;query($query); $num_results = $result-&gt;num_rows; for ($i = 0; $i &lt; $num_results; $i++) { $row = $result-&gt;fetch_assoc(); echo "&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;".($i+1).". Title: "; echo htmlspecialchars (stripslashes($row['title'])); echo "&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Author: "; echo stripslashes($row['author']); echo "&lt;br /&gt;ISBN: "; echo stripslashes($row['isbn']); echo "&lt;br /&gt;Price: "; echo stripslashes($row['price']); echo "&lt;/p&gt;"; } ... </code></pre> <p>And here is the output:</p> <pre><code>1. Название: Java 2. ??????????? ???????????? Автор: ????? ?????? ISBN: 5-8459-0046-8 Цена: 34.99 </code></pre> <p>Can someone point out what I am doing wrong?</p>
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