Comments on: Battling XHTML :: Storing UTF-8 data in MySQL http://themattreid.com/wordpress/2008/09/11/battling-xhtml-storing-utf-8-data-in-mysql/ MySQL DBA | Linux'er Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:40:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://themattreid.com/wordpress/2008/09/11/battling-xhtml-storing-utf-8-data-in-mysql/comment-page-1/#comment-22 admin Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:23:02 +0000 http://themattreid.com/wordpress/?p=65#comment-22 mike503, I would agree with you however I'm not using any form data in this case since the xml parser that is inputting the data is driven from the command line with php. I posted the good solution here: http://themattreid.com/wordpress/?p=66 mike503, I would agree with you however I’m not using any form data in this case since the xml parser that is inputting the data is driven from the command line with php.

I posted the good solution here: http://themattreid.com/wordpress/?p=66

]]> By: mike503 http://themattreid.com/wordpress/2008/09/11/battling-xhtml-storing-utf-8-data-in-mysql/comment-page-1/#comment-21 mike503 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:10:19 +0000 http://themattreid.com/wordpress/?p=65#comment-21 If the meta tag is set to content-type utf-8, the form input will be utf-8 encoded, and passed to mysql as plain old binary data. mysql doesn't care the encoding even with latin1 charset. (it would if you were doing mysql string functions on it though) however for just inserting and fetching information you can dump utf-8 encoded content into any type of column and display it back out to the browser with the same utf-8 meta tag and it works great. i believe the only thing i do on output is htmlspecialchars() to encode any html/XSS attempts. If the meta tag is set to content-type utf-8, the form input will be utf-8 encoded, and passed to mysql as plain old binary data. mysql doesn’t care the encoding even with latin1 charset. (it would if you were doing mysql string functions on it though)

however for just inserting and fetching information you can dump utf-8 encoded content into any type of column and display it back out to the browser with the same utf-8 meta tag and it works great.

i believe the only thing i do on output is htmlspecialchars() to encode any html/XSS attempts.

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