I had the same problem when the type column contained a ű or ő character. For example, an enumeration ('műszaki', 'stb'). Other characters, such as áíóé, do not make this mistake. And, as I saw, everything was configured as UTF-8. Therefore, the solution for me was:
In phpMyAdmin verison 4.0.4, I changed Util.class.php on line 3018.
//$displayed_type .= substr($printtype, 0, $GLOBALS['cfg']['LimitChars']); $displayed_type .= mb_substr($printtype, 0, $GLOBALS['cfg']['LimitChars']);
In the old phpMyAdmin version, I changed the line 276 tbl_structure.php.
//$type = '<abbr title="' . $type . '">' . substr($type, 0, $GLOBALS['cfg']['LimitChars']) . '</abbr>'; $type = '<abbr title="' . $type . '">' . mb_substr($type, 0, $GLOBALS['cfg']['LimitChars']) . '</abbr>';
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