I am having problems making mydatabase table show Latin caracters. (ã,õ,á,é,í,…). I am using WAMP server with Apache 2.4.9 and MySQL 5.6.17.
I have a simple form that I created in HTML and I have a PHP code witch runs a query and creates the account. Here is the PHP code:
include('config.php'); //My database data for connection
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$query = "INSERT INTO account SET username = '".$username."', password = PASSWORD('".$password."'), email = '".$email."'";
$execute_query = mysqli_query($connection, $query);
if($execute_query) {
//Creates the account
}
else {
//If an error occures
}
}
Now for example, I create an account with:
Username: Luís
Password: 1234
E-mail: somemail@mail.com
When I go check the Table it shows the account created but the username shows LuÃs instead of Luís.
Things I have tried:
Creating a DataBase and Table with:
utf8_general_ci
utf8_unicode_ci
utf8mb4_general_ci
utf8mb4_unicode_ci
latin1_swedish_ci
None of them worked, it always shows that à instead of í.
Best Answer
I have fixed my problem with the query "SET NAMES utf8".
Thank you @JakeGould for trying to help me, after all I had no problems with my database table. My database and table were set with CHARSET=utf8 and COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci.