Problem With  character

My php Sql is inserting  with £ like "£" in a Database field ITEM_NAME. Actully this is an Iphone Application and I am using this ITEM_NAME for comparing values. I dont want to add  with £. I have utf8_general_ci in database for this field.

I gone through almost all the post rel开发者_如何学JAVAated to that. Can any body please help me about this ?

I apologize for less explaination. I want to know can i insert £ into database without having Â. Actully once it enters in the database as £ and then it causes comparison problems.

You have to enforce utf-8 in several places:

• The column should accept utf-8 (done)
• The connection should be utf-8
• The form sending the value and the page showing results should have utf-8 encoding meta header and be saved as utf-8

The database is utf8_general_ci as the field?

Have you tried the function utf8_decode

I've a similar problem with CakePhp and I've to set the encoding in the Database file configuration...

Use mysqli_set_charset() before every query (or mysql_set_charset()) and ensure that your data itself is in unicode, too.

Run SET NAMES "utf8" before your query or set it in my.cnf as default-character-set=utf8.