I've had frustrating encoding problems in PHP before, some still
persisting on my site because I could not fully resolve them. Your
post here is extremely helpful! I was not aware of all those setup
options.
The encoding problems in PHP have, of course, been widely excoriated.
>From your post it seems that adequate documentation could make a big
difference.
Could you try posting that on the PHP web site?
Thanks again.
meek wrote:
> These are the things I do to make sure I can work consistently with
> UTF-8.
>
> 1) Make sure that the MySQL server and your database and all tables
> within it are configured to store and output strings as UTF-8.
>
> 2) Make sure that the MySQL connection from CAKE is configured for
> UTF-8 encoding. I do this in an overriden constructor in
> app/app_model.php:
>
> function __construct()
> {
> parent::__construct();
> $this->execute("SET NAMES 'UTF8'");
> }
>
> - I got this from an earlier discussion in this group I think. It made
> the real difference for me.
>
> 3) Set the encoding for all your views as UTF-8 using the PHP header
> command. At the moment I do this right at the top of my layouts - it
> needs to go in somewhere before anything else is rendered:
>
> <?php header("Content-type: text/html;charset=UTF-8"); ?>
>
>
> 4) Set the charset in HTML using the HTMLHelper although I don't think
> this is so important:
>
> <?php echo $html->charset('utf-8')?>
>
> 5) Make sure all your .php and .thtml files are UTF-8 encoded. Eclipse
> and JEdit both do this fine and consistently.
>
> - str_replace seems to work for me if I do all that (in PHP4) - I don't
> use the multibyte functions.
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