PHP is displaying questionmark (???) for unicode

One of the fun things in php-mysql is working with Unicode characters. It is so cooked that, we should almost eat those with a little bit adjustment.
I am not going to tutor on how to use php-mysql unicode stuff – there are a bunch of ’em out there.
Rather I would discuss an error that would be common while doing your stuff..
Once you configure everything and put your unicode to mysql, you might see the output of it being questionmark on the browser – but you see the correct unicode in the database through the phpmyadmin.. it is this single line of code you would ever need…
mysql_query(“SET NAMES ‘utf8′”, conn); where the conn is the result of your connection – mysql_connect();
You can modify it accordingly, for example I am using an object oriented one so I can issue the query from my object – you would need to do this only once.

Happy unicoding..

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