PHP and UNICODE problem

Question

Hello,
I'm using MaxDB v 7.8.02.21 (64bit) on Windows7 Home Premium with SP1 (64bit).
I want to read data in PHP v 5.3.6 (Appache 2.2.19), but I have a problem when there are some UNICODE characters in the table.
My table is:
create table "ADMIN"."T"(
     "NAME" VARCHAR (1000) UNICODE)
insert t set name = 'a'
insert t set name = 'u0103'
insert t set name = 'b'
The problem occurs only when there is some character which is coded on 2 bytes (example: ă = UNICODE 0103).
My PHP code looks like:
// connect
$conn = odbc_pconnect($db_name, $db_user, $db_password) or die('Error connecting to server. Server says: '.htmlspecialchars(odbc_errormsg()));
if(!$conn)
die("Bad entry to database!");
// query
$queryDual = odbc_exec($conn,"Select * from t");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($queryDual))
echo $row['NAME'];
echo 'num rows: '.odbc_num_rows($queryDual);
the result is:
a
num rows :3
So it seams, that reading from database fails on character 'ă'.
It is really interesting because when I make next query:
// query
$queryDual = odbc_exec($conn,"Select 'u0103' as name from t");
while($row = odbc_fetch_array($queryDual))
echo $row['NAME'];
echo 'num rows: '.odbc_num_rows($queryDual);
the result is:
'ă'
'ă'
'ă'
num rows :3
It seams that there is no problem to transfer 'ă' character from DB to PHP but there is some problem when 'ă' character is stored in the DB table.

Answer 1

Hi,
Could you please check wheter you have set parameter UNICODE= YES in MaxDB database.
Regards,
Deepak Kori