I've set the PHP character set to utf-8:
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
I've set the currency column in MySQL to varchar(1) with collation utf8_unicode_ci.
However, the following code in PHP:
$currency = '€';
$sql = "UPDATE myTable SET currency = '$currency' WHERE user = '$user'";
mysql_query($sql);
Produces the following character in MySQL:
â
How can I get the € symbol to store properly in MySQL?
解决方案
Make sure your script file, the file that contains the line
$currency = '€';
is encoded UTF-8. You should have an option to that effect in your editor's or IDE's "Save as" dialog.
Then make sure your connection is UTF-8 encoded as well - it is ISO-8859-1 by default.
After connecting to the database, for mySQL before 5.0.7:
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");
For mySQL 5.0.7 and newer:
mysql_set_charset("utf8");