Posted by:
webren
(---.dynamic.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp)
Same error encountered here with Japanese 2byte characters on the latest WAMP (tried other MySQL versions - same error)
Exact same setup works on another Apache/MySQL setup correctly displaying the Japanese shift-jis/sjis characters
I noticed that the moderator of this forum said that use of utf-8 would fix it but this is NOT the case.
There are specific character sets for Japanese that must be used to avoid displaying meaningless codes such as コ ン
In otherwords, for data to be readable on the rendered pages AND plainly readable within the database as well it must use a native character set for the language in question