CodeIgniter config charset and UTF-8 support

Question

I\'m working on a website which uses / stores accented characters in the database. I have the page template set so that the config.php charset variable matc

Answer 1

You have to make sure that you use UTF-8 everywhere, and that both PHP and MySQL are configure to handle UTF-8.

In the html, add the meta-tag:

<meta charset="utf-8" />

And save it in UTF-8 format. here is how to do that in notepad++.

Define the MySQL tables to support UTF-8, create table with:

DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

And set the connection to:

mysql_set_charset('utf8', $con);

Enable UTF-8 in the php.ini:

default_charset = "utf-8"

For a full manual check Handling Unicode Front To Back In A Web App