How to set charset to UTF-8 in a Zend application?

Question

I am developping a Zend application. The data in my database is encoded in \"utf8_unicode_ci\". I declared in my application.ini :

resources.view.encoding =          


        

Answer 1

Have you set the following, to fetch data from MySQL as utf8?

resources.db.params.charset = "utf8"

It is necessary to do three things to get correct characters displaying correctly:

1. Save PHP/HTML files in utf8 encoding
2. Fetch data from MySQL as utf8
3. Send the right content-type / charset header or use a meta tag

Further information in Rob Allen's article.