php - Foreign characters - saving to database? -

php - Foreign characters - saving to database? -

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save accents in mysql database 8 answers

i have words in fields:

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when save them database becomes:

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i have tried:

htmlspecialchars $db->escape mysql_real_escape_string

what right solution saving mysql database using php?

do following, after initialising connection: mysqli_set_charset("utf8");

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