Don't have experience but a search showed that you may have to set-up your mysql connection from PHP to use utf8 as php isn't good with unicode. They recommended this: $result = mysql_query('SET NAMES utf8;'); $result = mysql_query('SET CHARACTER_SET utf8;'); You can apparently also set up your mysql to default all connections to utf8. Here was where I found it: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/Q_21957635.html Eby On 4/10/07, Andrew Darby <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello, all. I'm going a little crazy with getting some unicode data > from MySQL to display properly in a web page, and wondered if you had > any ideas. > > The records are in MySQL (4.1.21) with a utf8_unicode_ci collation. > When I view in phpmyadmin, everything looks fine. If I run my query > in phpmyadmin, everything still looks fine, I can cut and paste the > record into the web page, and it displays fine, but when I grab the > data from MySQL it conks out: > > http://www.ithacalibrary.com/research/unicode_test.php > > I assume the problem is with my query or the connection, but I'm not > sure how I should do it. I've tried explicitly setting the character > set like so: > > SET names = 'utf8_unicodel_ci'; > SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8_unicode_ci' > > But this is voodoo to me--just saw it somewhere on the internets. > > Am I missing something obvious? Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Andrew >