setting the encoding in the database connection was the trick.
however, with this problem fixed weird things started up showing in
other places. turns out you have to specify UTF-8 when you use
htmlentities as well. i solved this by defining my own
function utfentities($string) {
return htmle
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There is also an application-global encoding setting in config/
> core.php
I'm a new at this list and I don't know if it was already covered,
but I solve these problems setting UTF-8 as default charset
at Apache. Put
another thing to check is your host provider.
I have all the things in utf8 but in my host provider it keeps showing
as iso-8859-1, so, after setting database and App.encoding to utf8, i
also had to add a:
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"');
at the beggining of index.php in my web
There is also an application-global encoding setting in config/
core.php
On Nov 2, 8:33 pm, Dave J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not sure why it would show up as a question mark when you generate the
> form with the helper, however, when connecting to the database, make
> sure you set the encodin
Not sure why it would show up as a question mark when you generate the
form with the helper, however, when connecting to the database, make
sure you set the encoding as well.
var $default = array('driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'localhost',
'login' =
My MySQL5 database is encoded in utf-8, and the page is as well (which
is declared in the html meta tags), however when I generate a select
field with the form helper, an uncommon character (é to be precise)
shows up as a question-diamond in firefox. if i manually set firefox
to use western (iso-8
