How can the behavior of strings containing Umlauts differ between direct input in phpMyAdmin and retrieval through PHP scripts in PHP and MySQL applications?

When strings containing Umlauts are input directly into phpMyAdmin, they may be stored using a different character encoding than expected. When retrieving these strings through PHP scripts in PHP and MySQL applications, the Umlauts may appear as garbled characters due to mismatched character encodings. To solve this issue, ensure that the character encoding settings in phpMyAdmin match those used in your PHP scripts, such as UTF-8. 

// Set the character encoding for the MySQL connection
mysqli_set_charset($connection, 'utf8');

// Retrieve the string containing Umlauts from the database
$query = "SELECT column_name FROM table_name WHERE id = 1";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $query);
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);

// Output the string with proper encoding
echo utf8_encode($row['column_name']);

Keywords

PHP phpMyAdmin Umlauts MySQL string manipulation

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