Local language CHARSET and COLLATION CHANGE to UTF8 and UTF8_bin not working

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Mysql hosting on 000Webhosting.com and my requirement to insert Indian local languages like "Gujarati" and "English" therefore I have set database and table collation to "utf8_bin" as below

SQL

ALTER TABLE mytable CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;

and

SQL

ALTER TABLE articles MODIFY Posts VARCHAR(20) CHARACTER SET UTF8;

changed it as above but not works its shows data like "????" Why its not allowed me to store data in local language.

What I have tried:

I have searched on online and altered it as above but not working.

Posted 3-Dec-19 4:15am

MAHESH WAGHELA

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MadMyche 3-Dec-19 10:28am

How are you viewing the data? Is this client being used set to use this charset as well?

MAHESH WAGHELA 3-Dec-19 10:34am

yes it is altered by me and I have seen it collation changed but not allow to insert local language instead it shows like "????"

[no name] 3-Dec-19 12:05pm

"Shows" is about "Fonts" - regardless of the characters.

MAHESH WAGHELA 4-Dec-19 0:19am

yest it is about Fonts. I have set character and collation to utf8_bin but result is "????"

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