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weird characters between php and mysql

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May 10.2007

Hi Guys:

I’m getting some weird characters between mysql and php, specifically whenever i use a £ (pound sign) is adds an accented A before it. also sometimes before ? (question marks) it adds in an accented A and another ?, so it looks like this:

Ã??

and for pound signs its sometimes:

£18.00

I guess its a character encoding problem, my page uses utf-8, i have set the encoding on the tables in mysql to utf-8 also.

i just tried to update a field that had £18.00 and it turned out like:

£18.00 (after updating it twice)

any help is appreciated

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@Suhas_DhokeMay 10.2007 — I think, Its the problem of [B]Encoding[/B].

When you try to copy/paste the symbol in your file (in editor), then set the encoding to [B]cp 1252[/B].

And when u insert it in MySQL, store its html entity, instead of the symbol as it is.
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