I have a MySQL database on a shared hosting server and by default it is set to latin1 encoding, but have string values which have foreign characters.
When I query the database in the command line, the values show correctly, ie "Domain Cuvée". However, when I am accessing via php/webpage, the value shows as "Domaine Cuv\u00e9e".
My character set/collation results are below.
SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name LIKE 'character\_set\_%' OR Variable_name LIKE 'collation%';
+--------------------------+-------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+-------------------+
| character_set_client | latin1 |
| character_set_connection | latin1 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | latin1 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| collation_connection | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_database | utf8_unicode_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_unicode_ci |
I am unable to access the my.cnf file, so setting the character_set values there is not an option. Is there any way I can show the correct characters via query or changing settings? I've tried changing in phpmyadmin and no avail.
TO clarify, the link below does not answer my question as I am not using php to connect to my database. I am using core data for most of my data connections and I can't modify the charset from the client side.
