Question

I have some really strange problem. I have a MySQL database and a sample php page (I’m working with CakePHP if this information can help to solve the problem). When I select from the database and print the information on the screen I get something like – “??????”. The fields in the database are with collation “utf8_general_ci” like the whole tables and the whole database. The php/html document have “” and there are still “??????” what can I do to solve my problem and view the text in the language I want?

Answer 1

Are you still adding a HTML charset?

<?php echo $html->charset('utf-8'); ?>

In a config.php make sure that is properly encoding. In a config/database.php:

'encoding' => 'utf8'

Or you are using standard latin encoding such as ISO-8859-1:

'encoding' => 'ISO-8859-1'