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CakePHP Character Encoding Checklist
I was having some issues today with character encoding and I thought I’d post about it. There are three elements that you need to make sure you have if you want to properly use UTF-8 character encoding in your Cake app. My issue was that I did not have #2, although adding #1 didn’t hurt either.
1. Database Config
Add ‘encoding’ => ‘utf8′ to app/config/database.php
var $default = array( 'driver' => 'mysql', 'persistent' => false, 'host' => 'localhost', 'login' => 'user', 'password' => 'password', 'database' => 'database', 'encoding' => 'utf8' );
2. Make sure your layout has the charset line in the
<head> <?php echo $html->charset(); ?> Other elements... </head>
3. This one is set by default, but make sure App.encoding is set in app/config/core.php
/**
* Application wide charset encoding
*/
Configure::write('App.encoding', 'UTF-8');
And thats it!
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Thumbs Up. Thanks for you post.
This was the trick
“‘encoding’ => ‘utf8′”
Thanks!
‘encoding’ => ‘utf8′
solve my problem to =)
Thanks!
For #2, will that need to be in each view? Still pretty new to cakephp and my app causes funny characters to be put into the database when another language is used.
I figured it out, it was #1. Thank you for the helpful page!