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Hi all ,,

i wanted to dispaly unicode values I saved in database. I use mysql database collation type is utf8
I save my native lanugage characters 'Sinhala' in the database. Although I can see them database when I print them in browser it prints ????????? characters.

what's going on here and how to solve this.

thanks in advance...........................

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How do you output to the browser? Did you specify a character encoding?

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no, I just take the characters from database and send to the browser. do i need to encode? If yes how and what format?

thx

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