Comments on: Using UTF8 In Your CakePHP App

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:03:14 +0000

Thanks, good tip. Does that also update the charset on all the text columns?

By: igri

igri — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:20:32 +0000

If you need to convert your tables to UTF-8, may try this code:

ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;

By: Mailson Lira

Mailson Lira — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:59:11 +0000

I cannot believe that I spent the last 3 hours trying to solve this.
Just one line, and problem solved!

Thank you!

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:16:27 +0000

@mishu – I emailed you this, but for completeness, here is one ideas to try:

Ő needs to be output as Ő for HTML to read it as an encoded character (in the source code of output HTML file). Try passing your output through html_entity_decode – http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php.

By: mishu

mishu — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:20:50 +0000

Hi man,
I have a problem displaying some hungarian chars although the document is declared UTF 8 and in database.php I added the encoding line. The problem is that when I use “Ő ;” – with no spacing – (which is the Ő or the O with two points above) in default.po the output is the actual code not the character. Any ideas how this can be sorted? I’d really appreciate an email answer since you got no “get comments on email” checkbox. Thanks mate.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:05:48 +0000

Fantastic! Your last “little gem” with adding the utf encoding to the database configuration is the last little piece that I’ve been looking for — for a LONG TIME NOW!! I had resorted to using
Configure::write(‘App.encoding’, ‘ISO-8859-1′)
in core.php, but now I’m all UTF8, all of the time!

Thanks for the tip!

By: Logic Lab Posting 1 « LogicBomb Media

Logic Lab Posting 1 « LogicBomb Media — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:31:05 +0000

[...] The short explanation: Set everything to UTF-8 at the beginning of your project. The long explanation (which is just a rehash of this awesome post at missingfeatures.com): [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:48:52 +0000

Brilliant! Thank you very, very much! I really wonder why those fundamental things are not in the Cake docs.

By: Neha

Neha — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:25:34 +0000

Thanks a lot. Really helpful post.
‘encoding’ => ‘utf8′ was something I couldn’t find in the documentation.

By: Julien

Julien — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:29:59 +0000

Thanks a lot for this post!