title: Can't insert Chinese character into MySQL
body: <p>The cookie is encoded using the big5 set, and it cannot insert into MySQL. Could you help me to solve this problem?</p>
  
  <p>Fields: <code>username</code> is eng, <code>date1</code> is date, <code>reason1</code> is a Chinese character.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$reason1 = $_COOKIE["reason"];
  $sql2="INSERT INTO 
      attendance_count(username,date,count_time,appendix) 
      VALUES ('$username','$date1','0','$reason1')";
  mysql_query($sql2);
  </code></pre>