How do I handle character encoding issues

Charset, Collation, MySQL, Character Encoding, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1
Learn how to manage character encoding issues in MySQL, ensuring proper data storage and retrieval of various character sets.
<?php // Connect to MySQL Database $servername = "localhost"; $username = "username"; $password = "password"; $dbname = "database"; // Create connection $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname); // Check connection if ($conn->connect_error) { die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error); } // Set the character set to UTF-8 $conn->set_charset("utf8"); // Prepare a query with special characters $sql = "INSERT INTO my_table (my_column) VALUES ('Café, résumé, jalapeño')"; if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) { echo "New record created successfully"; } else { echo "Error: " . $sql . "
" . $conn->error; } // Fetch and display records ensuring correct encoding $result = $conn->query("SELECT my_column FROM my_table"); while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) { echo "Record: " . htmlspecialchars($row['my_column'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . "<br>"; } // Close connection $conn->close(); ?>

Charset Collation MySQL Character Encoding UTF-8 ISO-8859-1