MongoDB PHP UTF-8 problems

Question

Assume that I need to insert the following document:

{
    title: \'Péter\'
}

(note the é)

It gives me an error when I use the foll

Answer 1

Can I change the character-encoding of MongoDB...

No data is stored in BSON. According to the BSON spec, all string are UTF-8.

Now, when I request the document, I still have to decode it ... : Is there some way to automate this process?

It sounds like you are trying to output the data to web page. Needing to "decode" text that was already encoded seems incorrect.

Could this output problem be a configuration issue with Apache+PHP? UTF8+PHP is not automatic, a quick online search brought up several tutorials on this topic.