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Storing and displaying unicode string (हिन्दी) using PHP and MySQL

Sample Script

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Hindi</title></head>
  <body>
    <?php
      include("connection.php"); //simple connection setting
      $result = mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8"); //the main trick
      $cmd = "select * from hindi";
      $result = mysql_query($cmd);
      while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result))
      {
          echo ($myrow[0]);
      }
    ?>
  </body>
</html>

The dump for my database storing hindi utf strings is

CREATE TABLE `hindi` (
  `data` varchar(1000) character set utf8 collate utf8_bin default NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

INSERT INTO `hindi` VALUES ('सूर्योदय');

charset in the HTML Head section

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

set content type in your php script using 

   header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' ); 

Mysql Example

CREATE DATABASE hindi_test
CHARACTER SET utf8
COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
USE hindi_test;
CREATE TABLE `hindi` (`data` varchar(200) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;
INSERT INTO `hindi` (`data`) VALUES('कंप्यूटर');


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