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 =
If you put all the codification and collation like 'utf8_general_ci' in the BD and then in the application.ini just next of mysql connection parameters, resources.db.params.charset = "utf8" should do the trick.
resources.db.params.charset = "utf8"