Problem with Zend Framework and UTF-8 characters (æøå)
php, utf-8, zend-framework
Solution
Listening to your description, the data departs from the form as UTF-8. Could it be that your database tables themselves are still `latin1`?
Problem
Hope here are some with more knowledge about Zend Framework than me, I've been trying to search for the answer but I'm not able to fin anything anywhere. Problem: When adding the content of a Zend_Form to the database with the use of Zend_Db the characters æ ø å is replaced by øæå System - WampServer 2.0i - Apache 2.2.11 - MySQL 5.1.36 - PHP 5.3.0 - Zend Framework 1.10.0 Modifications done to make it work (which it does not) application.ini ``` resources.db.adapter = "pdo_mysql" resources.db.params.host = "localhost" resources.db.params.username = "//Brukernavn//" resources.db.params.password = "//Passord//" resources.db.params.dbname = "//Database//" resources.db.params.charset = "utf8" resources.db.params.driver_options.1002 = "SET NAMES utf8" resources.db.isDefaultTableAdapter = true ``` To all forms I've added ``` ->setAttrib('accept-charset', 'utf-8'); ``` And in Bootstrap.php I've placed the following code: ``` $view->setEncoding('UTF-8'); $view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT'); $view->headMeta()->appendHttpEquiv('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=utf-8'); ``` The database is set to utf8_general_ci Anyone have a tip on how to get it to work? Soulution: It's a bug in PHP 5.3.0 and 5.3.1 ( http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47224 ) so I choose to downgrade to 5.2.11, and all worked like a charm. Thanks to Pekka and Greg K for pointing me in the right direction.