I'm pretty sure I'm missing something basic, but I can't figure out what it is. Everything should be default characterset (I haven't specified or changed anything) which I assume is Latin1. This should be fine as all the characters I need are in Latin1 (most questions seem directed at changing charset to utf-8).
I used copy and paste from an HTML page with charset=iso-8859-1 to insert some letters with acutes and umlauts into a MYSQL database, which shows up fine when selected from the commandline. However well I select these in a PHP script and display with iso-8859-1 as the browser encoding, they show up as commas or apostrophes only.
ä = „ ö = ” é = ‚ á = (a blank)
If I just copy and paste these vowels below the actual php tags, they display correctly.
