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Help with MySQL character sets and collations - El Forum - 11-14-2008 [eluser]Daniel Peraza[/eluser] Hi!, I'm using the Active Record Class to store user-edited data into a MySQL 5 DB, which uses utf8_general_ci as collation. The problem is that A.R.C. is not sanitizing the data properly and when I try to use spanish characters such as áéíóúñ, the data is stored in the DB as áéÃ&At;. My database.php config file has these settings: Code: $db['default']['char_set'] = "utf8"; Help with MySQL character sets and collations - El Forum - 02-10-2009 [eluser]Jiacomo[/eluser] I have the same problem! [quote author="Daniel Peraza" date="1226717970"]Hi!, I'm using the Active Record Class to store user-edited data into a MySQL 5 DB, which uses utf8_general_ci as collation. The problem is that A.R.C. is not sanitizing the data properly and when I try to use spanish characters such as áéíóúñ, the data is stored in the DB as áéÃ&At;. My database.php config file has these settings: Code: $db['default']['char_set'] = "utf8"; Help with MySQL character sets and collations - El Forum - 02-10-2009 [eluser]bitist[/eluser] Check if your database tables collation is utf8_general_ci. You can check this with PHPMyAdmin Collation row. Help with MySQL character sets and collations - El Forum - 02-10-2009 [eluser]Jiacomo[/eluser] Hi, thanks for the reply. My tables collation is "utf8_unicode_ci", so I set: $db['default']['char_set'] = "utf8"; $db['default']['dbcollat'] = "utf8_unicode_ci"; ... Help with MySQL character sets and collations - El Forum - 02-10-2009 [eluser]bitist[/eluser] I don't know the difference between the 2 collation, but I used utf8_general_ci, so you should try to convert one of you table to utf8_general_ci and maybe that'll work for you. Help with MySQL character sets and collations - El Forum - 02-11-2009 [eluser]Daniel Peraza[/eluser] Well, in my case I had it done previously. But my problem was that I was starting to learn CI and I wasn't sure that Active Record Queries would escape values properly before executing its statements. So I had left some code somewhere to automatically escape string values by calling Code: htmlentities() Help with MySQL character sets and collations - El Forum - 02-11-2009 [eluser]Skuja[/eluser] In what encoding your controller/view files ar encoded in ? |