How can MySQL be configured to handle UTF-8 characters correctly?

To configure MySQL to handle UTF-8 characters correctly, you need to set the character set and collation for your database, tables, and connection to UTF-8. This ensures that MySQL properly stores, retrieves, and displays UTF-8 encoded data. 

// Set the character set and collation for the database
mysqli_query($conn, "SET NAMES 'utf8' COLLATE 'utf8_unicode_ci'");
mysqli_query($conn, "SET CHARACTER SET utf8");

// Set the character set and collation for each table
mysqli_query($conn, "ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci");

// Set the character set and collation for the connection
mysqli_set_charset($conn, "utf8");

Keywords

MySQL UTF-8 character encoding collation configuration

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