1. 

   ahowie, Member

   Hello,

   I have a problem with my reports not correctly displaying results that contain diacritics. For example the name Paweł Marcińczyk is being displayed as PaweÅ‚ MarciÅ„czyk.

   The data is stored by MySQL encoded as UTF8. What do I need to change to get these to correctly display?

   Thanks.
2. 

   myDBR Team, Key Master

   First thing to do is to figure out is what is wrong. MySQL is usually quite easy with UTF8 and myDBR has no problems with diacritics. Most likely there is a configuration problem in server or the data is stored incorrectly.

   Open the SQL Editor and excute following commands.

   The hex value for ł in Paweł should be C582. So

   select hex(ord('ł'))

   Should return C582

   as should (modify to match your data)

   select hex(ord(reverse(first_name))) from mydb.persons;

   To see full description of your settings:

   SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%';
   
   SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'collation%';

   And to see config of your table's column holding the data (modify to match your data):

   SELECT CHARACTER_SET_NAME, COLLATION_NAME
   
   FROM information_schema.COLUMNS C
   
   WHERE table_schema = 'mydb'
   
     AND table_name = 'mytable'
   
     AND column_name = 'mycolumn';

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   myDBR Team
3. 

   ahowie, Member

   Thanks for the quick reply, here are the results of the above:

   1.
   C582

   2.
   E2809A

   3.
   Variable_name Value
   character_set_client utf8
   character_set_connection utf8
   character_set_database utf8
   character_set_filesystem binary
   character_set_results utf8
   character_set_server latin1
   character_set_system utf8
   character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/

   Variable_name Value
   collation_connection utf8_general_ci
   collation_database utf8_general_ci
   collation_server latin1_swedish_ci

   4.
   CHARACTER_SET_NAME COLLATION_NAME
   utf8 utf8_general_ci
4. 

   myDBR Team, Key Master

   Assuming that the query number 2 is pointing at to 'ł', it looks like your data is stored incorrectly in to the database.

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   myDBR Team
5. 

   ahowie, Member

   Yes that was what it was, I tracked the bug down to the PHP file that inserted the names to the database and explicitly set utf8:

   mysql_set_charset('utf8');
6. 

   myDBR Team, Key Master

   While you are at it, you might want to start using mysqli-extension instead of the old mysql.

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   myDBR Team

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