title: how to insert Indian language Telugu charactes in mysql
body: <p>I want to store Indian language(Telugu) in my database table.But it is displaying ???? while inserting Telugu data into my table.I have verified some thing like below</p>
  
  <pre><code>SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ‘character_set_system’;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It displaying the output like <code>Character_set_system| UTF8</code>.</p>
  
  <p>After that i have altered my talbe </p>
  
  <pre><code>alter table lang modify characters varchar(12) character set utf8;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>still do i need anything for that.</p>