Re: data in my database appear like (????????)

[Hamidreza Mz]

Hi!
This is my problem too! I was searching in web for resolving this naughty problem. I founded a web site recently and take my experimental php project to it.
my project works fine locally with mysql 4.1.9-max.
Hosting service mysql versin is 4.1.10 .
I am a php novice and this is my first application that is a simple register & login system. I set every thing on utf8; headers - html form ... etc.
mysql preparer query is: SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'
I had to comment this instruction entirely in my project for the sake that users can register and login with a non-ascii username string (in my project e.g. it is

persian! ())
but this is an annoying workaround. Each byte of utf8 stream is converted to utf8 again!! :( Too bad! That's realy wrong!
I increase my username field length up to 4 times longer to have enough space for such completely Illegible strings.
Please help me humble!

See my table:

CREATE TABLE `ids` (
`userid` mediumint(9) NOT NULL default '0',
`username` varchar(120) collate utf8_unicode_ci default NULL,
`password` varchar(32) character set ascii collate ascii_bin default NULL,
`email` varchar(40) character set ascii default NULL,
`gender` char(1) character set ascii default NULL,
`loginkey` varchar(64) character set ascii collate ascii_bin default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`userid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;