Can't insert Chinese character into MySQL

Solution 1:

Use UTF-8 when you create table.

create table table_name () CHARACTER SET = utf8;

Use UTF-8 when you insert to table

set username utf8; INSERT INTO table_name (ABC,VAL);

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Detailed Code

Below code is tested code please do the following its works.

If you have already created database please ALTER it as below code. And if you didn't created database then create it and set Collation to utf8_unicode_ci

And same for table define Collation as "utf8_unicode_ci" for table fields in which you want to store chines chars.

ALTER DATABASE `stackoverflow` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;

CREATE TABLE `stackoverflow`.`chines`
(
    `id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
    `words` VARCHAR( 200 ) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL
) ENGINE = InnoDB;

<?php

    define('HOSTNAME', 'localhost');
    define('USERNAME', 'root');
    define('PASSWORD', '');
    define('DATABASE', 'stackoverflow');

    $dbLink = mysql_connect(HOSTNAME, USERNAME, PASSWORD)or die(mysql_error());
    mysql_query("SET character_set_results=utf8", $dbLink)or die(mysql_error());
    mb_language('uni'); 
    mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
    mysql_select_db(DATABASE, $dbLink)or die(mysql_error());
    mysql_query("set names 'utf8'",$dbLink)or die(mysql_error());

    if(isset($_POST['addWord']))
    {
        mysql_query("SET character_set_client=utf8", $dbLink)or die(mysql_error());
        mysql_query("SET character_set_connection=utf8", $dbLink)or die(mysql_error());

        $sql_query = "INSERT INTO chines(words) VALUES('".$_POST['words']."')";
        mysql_query($sql_query, $dbLink)or die(mysql_error());
    }

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <?php
        mysql_query("SET character_set_results=utf8", $dbLink);
        $sql_query = "SELECT * FROM chines";
        $dbResult = mysql_query( $sql_query, $dbLink)or die(mysql_error());

    ?>

    <form action="" method="post">

        <p>Word : <input type="text" name="words" /></p>
        <p><input type="submit" name="addWord" /></p>

    </form>
    <?php
        while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($dbResult))
        {
            echo $row['words']. '<br />';
        }
    ?>
</body>
</html>

See the result and step visual as below.

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Solution 2:

For Chinese, you really need utf8mb4, not utf8. This is because of a small number of Chinese characters that require 4-byte UTF8 characters, which MySQL's utf8 does not support.

Can't insert Chinese character into MySQL

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