MYSQLi weird characters return null

Question

Whenever a field in that particular row contains characters like á à é è ü etc it returns null.

Whenever I execute the query in phpmyadmin it works fine so I am guessing it has something to with mysqli?

$results = mysqli_query($mysqli, "SELECT ea_id, nationid, firstname, lastname, commonname, rating FROM players WHERE commonname LIKE '%test%' OR firstname LIKE '%test%' OR lastname LIKE '%test%'");

$record = mysqli_fetch_assoc($results);
print_r($record);

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 10 '14 at 22:32

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$mysqli->set_charset("utf8")

should fix your problem.

Also check your page header & database for utf8 encoding.

answered Jan 10 '14 at 22:32

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