Note. The "get" method restricts form data set values to ASCII characters. Only the "post" method (with enctype="multipart/form-data") is specified to cover the entire [ISO10646] character set.
This chapter provides tutorial notes on sending non-ASCII text data to MySQL. Topics include sending non-ASCII text data in SQL statements; changing MySQL character set settings to send Latin1, UTF-8, BGK, and Big5 characters.
This chapter provides tutorial notes on character set and encoding in MySQL. Topics include defining text columns with specific character set encodings; encoding conversions performed by MySQL on SQL statements and result sets; fetching non-ASCII characters in UTF-8 encoding.
This chapter provides tutorial notes on Chinese characters in PHP string literals. Topics include PHP string literal syntax; testing Chinese character strings with UTF-8, GB18030, and Big5 encodings.