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In my mysql database i have string with german umlauts (ä, ö, ü).
I query them with php/mysql and when displayed on my website, they show up like this:
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I have this html in my website:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
edit: i have changed all collations to utf8_unicode_ci but the problem still persists
</div>
If you have written html meta tag as charset=UTF-8 and you have set Collation as utf8_unicode_ci character set and its not working then you must use
mysql_set_charset('utf8');
use this where you have made your connection file, like this:-
$link = mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
$db = mysql_select_db('testing');
mysql_set_charset('utf8');