I'd say it's the other way around. Text gets stored in some non-UTF8 format in the database (latin-1 most likely), so it comes back as gobbledygook. When you explicitly force the gobbledygook to be interpreted as UTF8, it's being morphed back into what it was meant to be.
Check your database settings and set all collations to UTF8. On 12 Jun 2008, at 15:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > I have started putting a project onto a rented "production server" > running a pretty standard Ubuntu installation AFAIK. > I have been able to fix some initial problems with charsets but one > thing I just can seem to figure out. > > On my dev system > $this->params['form']['hello_text'] // in MySQL = hallå > > On production system > $this->params['form']['hello_text'] // inMySQL = hallÃ¥ > utf8_decode( $this->params['form']['hello_text'] ) // inMySQL = hallå > > Looks like the text gets encoded to utf8 before being put into the > database. Problem is that the text is already utf8 so I get these > nasty characters. > > Does anyone know what triggers Cake or PHP to encode the text before > sending it to MySQL? > > Any pointer in the right direction would be great. thanks. > > Martin > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
