Question

Dear members of the Stackoverflow community,

We are developing a web application using the Zend Framework, and we are
facing some encoding issues that we hope you might help us solve. The
situation goes something like this: There are certain tables on a MySQL
database that need to be displayed as html. Because the site is designed
using the Spanish language, the database contains some characters like “á”
or “ñ”. Our internal policy is to set all the encodings as UTF-8, including
all the databases and the tables. The problem is, that when we retrieve the
content from the DB, some characters are displayed as question marks.

We are out of ideas. These are all the things that we have already tried and
double-checked:
1. The SQL file from which we load all the data is properly UTF-8 encoded.
2. The SQL is loaded through phpmyadmin (which is configured as UTF-8), and
the resulting tables are displayed properly.
3. The netbeans environment used for coding is also set as UTF-8.

The weird thing is that all the content that is hard-coded either as php or
html is displayed properly. Only the values that are extracted from the
database have issues.

Any ideas?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

do you use

resources.db.params.charset = "utf8" 

in your config file like (application.ini)?