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 =
I had the same problem, i fixed it in config/autoload/global.php by setting charset value :
'db' => [ 'adapters' => [ 'dummy' => [], 'myadapter' => ['charset' => 'utf-8',], ],