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

I had the same problem, i fixed it in config/autoload/global.php by setting charset value :

'db' => [
    'adapters' => [
        'dummy' => [],
        'myadapter' => ['charset'  => 'utf-8',],
    ],

Answer 2

I used to develop ZF application with many languages including RTL ones . and I used to add this to my bootstrap file and I've found it pretty neat .

maybe this not an answer but i think its good suggestion :

public function _initMB(){
 mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
}

for more info about mb_internal_string check out : http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-internal-encoding.php

Answer 3

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.