Whizzo now with Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn.. my girlfriend will be happy! And it seems that some of the articles I quoted in my earlier post Portable php-mysql connection charset fix may have held some truth. The solution, eventually had something to do with the following two lines of PHP code.
$conn->query( "SET NAMES 'utf8'" );
$conn->set_charset("utf8");
Which need to be set on every database connection I use… The collation on my databases are utf8_unicode_ci, though the server default for our hosting provider is latin1.
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