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Bug #74212 Prepare destroys some UTF-8 characters on Insert
Submitted: 2017-03-06 16:25 UTC Modified: 2017-03-19 04:22 UTC
From: michael dot kaiser at winzeldorf dot de Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: PDO MySQL
PHP Version: 5.6.30 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2017-03-06 16:25 UTC] michael dot kaiser at winzeldorf dot de 
Description:
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It is not possible to insert turkish UTF8 characters (like in the name Elit İşcan) into a MySQL database via PDO.
I tried MyISAM tables and InnoDB tables.
I tried utf8, utf16, utf32, utfmb4 and ISO 8859-9 Turkish (latin 5)

Test script:
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// Does not work:
$query = "INSERT INTO utf8test (Name) VALUES ("Elit İşcan")";
$pdo = $db->prepare($query);
$pdo->execute();
// Results in entry "Elit ??can".



Expected result:
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Database entry should read "Elit İşcan"

Actual result:
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Database entry is "Elit ??can"

Old MySQL command works:
$query = "INSERT INTO utf8test (Name) VALUES ("Elit İşcan")";
mysql_query(query);
Results in entry "Elit İşcan".

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 [2017-03-06 17:15 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2017-03-06 17:15 UTC] requinix@php.net 
This is unlikely to be a bug with PDO.

Check that you are using UTF-8 (or whichever encoding) for all aspects of the database - do "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%conn%'" to see. Then make sure whatever you're using to read the database is connecting properly as well, and that the output is in UTF-8 too. And obviously, the file must be in UTF-8 encoding as well since you're hardcoding the string in it.

Also check that you get the same behavior with mysql/mysqli using the exact same connection parameters, and with PDO's regular (non-prepared) queries.
 [2017-03-19 04:22 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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