Editor’s note: In some cases, when you have forgotten to preset the MySQL database table encoding to UTF8 after the creation of the database but later you need to insert some UTF8 text such as Chinese or other Asian languages, here is how you could do with PHP to change the encoding of the MySQL database table.

Editor’s note: If you are a programmer who involves with a database with UTF8 language encoding records such as Chinese or other Asian languages. You might counter some cases when you try to display the records, the UTF8 language characters might appear to be meaningless symbols. I have found a way to solve this issue.