Well i got a php script that takes nicknames from a the Steam web-api and insert them into a mysql db. Many of them got rare russian and greek characters. I set php to utf-8 in the php.ini and in all the php files with
mb_internal_encoding('utf-8');
My PDO connector is configured to handle utf8
$connection = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=d2bd;mysql:charset=utf8mb4', 'root', '');
$connection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, false);
$connection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
$connection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT, true);
$connection->setAttribute(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND, "SET NAMES 'utf8mb4' COLLATE 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci'");
my mysql db is properly configured with utf8mb4
character_set_client utf8mb4
character_set_connection utf8mb4
character_set_database utf8mb4
character_set_filesystem binary
character_set_results utf8mb4
character_set_server utf8mb4
character_set_system utf8
character_sets_dir C:\xampp\mysql\share\charsets\
collation_connection utf8mb4_unicode_ci
collation_database utf8mb4_unicode_ci
collation_server utf8mb4_unicode_ci
completion_type NO_CHAIN
concurrent_insert AUTO
connect_timeout 10
core_file OFF
In few words i take the input of the web-api and encode it with uft8_encode(). Then i insert it into the db. The problem is that some characters are not well encoded and when i recall them from the database they are all bugged.
Example 1:
1.Input -> Перуанский чертовски
2.Encode -> ÐеÑÑанÑкий ÑеÑÑовÑки
3.Insert into DB
4.Select from DB -> Ð?еÑ?Ñ?анÑкий Ñ?еÑ?Ñ?овÑкÐ
5.Decode
6.Output -> �?е�?�?анский �?е�?�?овск�
Example 2:
1.Input -> $ |/| 1 ↓_ € ♥ J
2.Encode -> $ |/| 1 â_ ⬠⥠J
3.Insert into DB
4.Select from DB -> 1 â??_ â?¬ â?¥ J
5.Decode
6.Output -> 1 �??_ �?� �?� J
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