utf problem with html form

code-up

over a week i am reading articles about utf8 and how to be compatible with php and mysql, however i didn't solve my problem. 😕

my problem is: when I send data using normal html form to mysql database, this data appear like : ???????????. wrong characters.
although my database encoding is utf-8 as its tables. and I have meta tag in the page which said that charset=utf-8 ...

may be usefull to know , i am using PDO to connect to mysql. and smarty to deal with templates.

  // Create a new PDO class instance
        self::$_mHandler = new PDO(PDO_DSN, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, array( PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => DB_PERSISTENCY));

	self::$_mHandler->query('SET NAMES utf8');

Roger_Ramjet

Probably because your form data is being sent from any browser on any operating system, probably IE on winders. What you need is to set the form data to utf8 as well

Roger_Ramjet

Roger Ramjet;10933067 wrote:
Probably because your form data is being sent from any browser on any operating system, probably IE on winders. What you need is to set the form data to utf8 as well

ON second thoughts, set it to enctype="text/plain" explicitly.

code-up

Thank you so much friends. you will not believe me if said I solve the problem by chance. I just re-build my database with same settings as old one.. and every thing go well ......... why ; I don't know 😃