Posts Tagged ‘utf-8’

Zend_Db and UTF-8

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Today I discovered a problem with my PHP/MySQL application. SQL data coming from the Zend_Db logic has the wrong encoding.

Like IMO all modern applications should, my application only uses UTF-8 for displaying and handling all non-ASCII characters. To make the MySQL server understand that I talk UTF-8 to it, I always use the following immediately after connecting:
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