Assign MySQL Character Set for PHP output

For the old proceedings/programme pages of old events, we were seeing character errors like this:

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So to fix this I introduced into the configuration.php file the following:

$db=mysql_connect('localhost','username','password') or mysql_die();
mysql_select_db('DBname',$db);
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$db);

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PHP.net reference here.

2021
03/08
CATEGORY
Coding
MySQL
PHP
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