On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:31 AM, jsalonen <joni.salo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most likely the mysql client is set to use latin-1. To change it from
> Cake add the encoding setting to the config/database.php:
>
> var $default = array(
> 'encoding' => 'utf8', // Convert all character data to
> UTF-8
> 'driver' => 'mysql',
> 'persistent' => false,
> 'host' => 'localhost',
> 'login' => 'user',
> 'password' => 'password',
> 'database' => 'database_name',
> 'prefix' => '',
> );
>
> The MySQL client converts strings read from the server into the
> encoding used locally. This makes sense because you can mix several
> different storage encodings in a table, but you still want something
> like select * from books return readable data for every column.
I was just about to reply, "Thanks, I just forgot to add that to my
checklist." And then, uh ... realised that encoding is missing from
the DB config. {face-palm} How /very/ embarrassing. It's not like I'm
a beginner to all this. Must be old age, then. ;-)
Thanks for the tip!
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