working with database in UTF-8

[Paul Hastings]

Jackey Cheung wrote:
> Well, it shows a bunch of question marks (?) no matter I use arial or big5 
> fonts. I don't know how to check out the encoding of fonts, and I don't know 
> which font to use for the case.

? indicate that your data is garbaged somewhere along the line, usually from a 
serious encoding mismatch. mojibake (@$%!?<+~ etc.) usually means simple 
encoding mismatch. if you see boxes instead of chars, that's a font issue.