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

Have you tried also setting the headers to utf8? Usually in php i do it this way

 header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

in your case i think you must use something different. i've taken this example from Zend Framework documentation maybe you should use something different, i'm no expert of Zend_Framework

// Within an action controller action:
// Set a header
$this->getResponse()
    ->setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html')
    ->appendBody($content);

If you set headers, meta and encoding it should work (from your code it seems to me you are only setting meta and encoding)

(look at this question to understand what i mean, the answer from Berry Langerak: PHP Display Special Characters)

EDIT - i also found another example in this article where it sets the header for a controller, take a look at it,maybe this is what you are looking for : http://www.chris.lu/en/news/show/4d56d0ecb058c/

This part might be what you are looking for:

protected function _initFrontControllerOutput() {

    $this->bootstrap('FrontController');
    $frontController = $this->getResource('FrontController');

    $response = new Zend_Controller_Response_Http;
    $response->setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8', true);
    $frontController->setResponse($response);

    $frontController->setParam('useDefaultControllerAlways', false);

    return $frontController;

}