European characters like è é å ñ ü ,à, è, ì, ò, ù – À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù, ™, © ,• , ∑, α, β, «, » do not get inserted correctly in MySQL by default. To fix it, we need to change the character set (fixed collection of symbols) and collation (set of rules that determine how data is sorted and compared).
To insert and retrieve european characters change character set to utf Read more…