troubles with international fonts

international fonts php, mysql

[Jazzeroki]

I'm not even sure where to begin with this problem

I'm using php, and mysql. I need to be able to handle multiple languages being submitted through forms. You can type the information into the form just fine. English characters cause me no troulbe at all by the way, but when I try using something like Russian, well then the trouble starts.

Once the information is passed on it comes out like this in my database долдлор

so I need some way to have it show the foreign characters singly instead of using those 7 character things just to display one character. that and my database gets to full trying to use those things, rather than individual characters.

How do I fix this?

[venelin13]

I think it depands of the MySQL charecter set. I have had the same problem before and I realized I am not able to store and manage (search, etc) a database that contains both latin and cyrilic alphabets.

[Timotheos]

it comes out like this in my database долдлор

That's very strange but I would think it's a function of the browser converting the input to these numeric character references.

What sort of encoding do you have on the form page?