Description:
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I have a fully UTF-8 MySQL database with a fully UTF-8 table. I have a php page which has "<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />" at the top of the html section and "mysql_set_charset("utf8");" after my connection.  I have all my php.ini mbstring stuff configured for utf-8:

mbstring.language = Neutral
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8
mbstring.http_input = auto
mbstring.encoding_translation = On
mbstring.detect_order = auto

and for what it's worth, echo mb_internal_encoding(); reports "UTF-8" and mysql_client_encoding(); reports "utf8".


Reproduce code:
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$con = mysql_connect('localhost', 'user', 'password');
mysql_select_db("database", $con);
mysql_set_charset("utf8");

$query = "SELECT japanese_terms.term_lang, language_en FROM japanese_terms, languages ";
$query .="WHERE japanese_terms.term_id = languages.language_id ORDER BY term_id";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while( $row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
  foreach($row as $field)
    { print($field . "<br />"); }
}

Expected result:
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I expect the UTF-8 data to display properly, and as UTF-8 data.  When I run the same query that pulls out (in this case, Japanese, but say any) UTF8 data, it displays properly in MySQL Query Browser.

Actual result:
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With php in the above context however, it does not.  Instead, it prints a ? corresponding to each character.  When I use mb_detect_encoding(); on each such string, it tells me they are encoded as "ASCII" instead of expected "UTF-8".