[BonD]

Hello guys,

I'm a first-time poster and to make the problem more complex I'm from Hungary, so I'm not a native English speaker. The real problem is with my database server, that I recently installed on my computer for testing purposes.

My configuration is quite simple, a 2,4 Ghz P4 machine with a MS Windows XP SP2 installed on it and an Apache 2.054 webserver with PHP 4.4.0. The problem is when I try to run a really simple, database driven script I receive some funny characters instead of the characters of the Hungarian language. I use phpMyAdmin to manage my databases, so I've looked at my database and see all the characters as normal. However viewing in any other scripts, the special characters from my database becoming crappy... To show this, I've uploaded a screenshot that you can see here.

I don't know what to do with this. I've already asked this question in so many Hungarian forums but the guys there couldn't help me. I hope that you can help me out! Thanks in advance!

[dennispopel]

Hello,

make sure you:
1. Specify the charset and collation of MySQL db/table/column
2. Issue the set names SQL query to set it to that charset
3. Exchange data with the client in that encoding
4. Your scripts are saved in that encoding