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Your best bet would be UTF-8. for both the site and the database, but no matter what you choose they should be the same. Otherwise it is like trying to translate a German book with a French dictionary.
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Your best bet would be UTF-8. for both the site and the database, but no matter what you choose they should be the same. Otherwise it is like trying to translate a German book with a French dictionary.

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I am about to develope a website in Japanese using PHP and mySQL but I have problem displaying Japanese character correctly. The data is retrieved from the database. My site is encoded in JIS-Shift<br />
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The question is: which character set should I use to store my data?<br />
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Thank you
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I am about to develope a website in Japanese using PHP and mySQL but I have problem displaying Japanese character correctly. The data is retrieved from the database. My site is encoded in JIS-Shift

The question is: which character set should I use to store my data?

Thank you

Japanese characters problem

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