MYSQL - Turkish character

this problem sounds like you've missed to specify a character encoding somewhere. to solve this, simply make sure you've set character encoding to utf-8 everywere (it doesn't actually need to be utf-8, just the same everywhere - but if you've messed up something and need to change some places anyway, i'd strongly recommend using utf-8):

• tell MySQL to use utf-8. to do this, add this to your my.cnf:

  collation_server = utf8_unicode_ci
  character_set_server = utf8
  

• before interacting with mysql, send this two querys:

  SET NAMES 'utf8';
  CHARSET 'utf8';
  

  or, alternatively, let php do this afteropening the connection:

  mysql_set_charset('utf8', $conn);
  

• set UTF-8 as the default charset for your database

  CREATE DATABASE `my_db` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET 'utf8';
  

• do the same for tables:

  CREATE TABLE `my_table` (
    -- ...
  ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
  

• assuming the client is a browser, serve your content as utf-8 and the the correct header:

  header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
  

  to be really sure the browser understands, add a meta-tag:

  <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  

• and, last but not least, tell the browser to submit forms using utf-8

  <form accept-charset="utf-8" ...>
  

You need to mention Charset to UTF8 in your selection query too.

SET NAMES 'utf8';
CHARSET 'utf8';

What made the difference for me was to add these lines:

collation_server = utf8_unicode_ci

character_set_server = utf8

to my.ini file (at the end of the document) I have tried everything else but they all failed until I made this change. It's really been a great help. Thanks oezi.