Displaying non-standard characters

[Maskeeper]

This may be more of an HTML question, but here goes:

I have a database of people. Each of these people has a code name. For the most part these code names are pretty straight forward: using standard alphanumeric characters.

I have one person who uses the "empty set" as their code name. I am able to get a character that represents this into a MYSQL database (using this character, and using phpMyAdmin it displays as the proper character...

However when trying to output it to a standard webpage it always displays as ?. Obviously HTML supports displaying the character somehow, as phpMyAdmin is able to do so and Wikipedia is as well-- but I'm unsure what character set I need to tell the page, and specifically where to tell it, to get it to display properly.

Thanks in advance!

[NogDog]

Try using [man]htmlentities/man when you output it to the browser. In fact, it's a good habit to get into for any text being output that has any possibility -- whether accidentally or maliciously -- to have any special characters, script tags, etc.

[Maskeeper]

Worked swimmingly! Thanks a bunch.