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sprateek

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Japanese Character Problem
« on: August 12, 2010, 10:41:55 AM »

I have an application in Japanese. My phpMyadmin shows db character perfectly fine. But when my application fetch that data and show it on screen it shows like ??? instead of original character.


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Re: Japanese Character Problem
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2010, 02:15:52 AM »
Try to use utf8_encode() / utf8_decode() functions, and also use html meta Content-type: utf-8 on the html page generated by your script. Though I have never worked with Japanese characters.
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