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Anytime there's an accent mark (é or ') or symbol (&) in my database it displays as HTML code. The table CHARACTER SET is UTF-8 Unicode and the COLLATION is utf8mb4_general_ci, which should display those characters correctly. Any ideas why this is happening?

(MySQL version 5.7)

Current data

`company`| `firstname`| `lastname`
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A&T  | Patrick    | O'Brien

Expected

`company`| `firstname`| `lastname`
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A&T      | Patrick    | O'Brien

Thank you in advance!

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  • this is html encode use a function to convert it see stackoverflow.com/questions/3678980/…
    – nbk
    Apr 4, 2020 at 18:05
  • Thanks, it works. However, I'm currently using another function to capitalize these cell values. So my query would now look like proper(HTML_UnEncode('company')),proper(HTML_UnEncode('firstname')),proper(HTML_UnEncode('lastname')), which nearly doubles the query time. Any tips?
    – msklut
    Apr 4, 2020 at 18:25
  • Sorry i meant you update all rows '**once ** and change the code that inserts the html encoded text . if that is not prossible, do a before insert and update, which converts the the text before inserting
    – nbk
    Apr 4, 2020 at 18:35
  • so with a BEFORE INSERT trigger?
    – msklut
    Apr 4, 2020 at 18:46
  • when you have code that insert and updates your database produces this html encoded text of course both
    – nbk
    Apr 4, 2020 at 18:48

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Fix the data source to store actual characters into MySQL, not "HTML entities".

Where necessary, use output routines such as PHP's html_entities() and/or urlencode()

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