UTF-8 Problem, no Idea
encoding, php, utf-8
Solution
MySQL needs to know you want the output as UTF-8 - it's likely configured to send as latin1, so your browser sees the invalid UTF-8 byte sequences and outputs the "not a character" glyph.
Send the query "SET NAMES utf8" immediately after opening the MySQL connection, or change the configuration (if possible).
Problem
I have a strange problem with some documents on my webpage. My data is stored in a MYSQL Database, UTF8 encoded. If read the values my webbpage displays Rezept : Gem�se mal anders (Gem�selaibchen) I need ü / ü! Content in the database is "Gemüse ... " .. The raw data in my error_log looks like this [title] => Rezept : Gemüse mal anders (Gemüselaibchen) The webpage header is: ``` <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <!--[if IE]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.dev-twitter-gewitter.com/css//blueprint/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"> <![endif]--> <meta name="text/html; charset=UTF-8" content="Content-Type" /> ```