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Problem adding polish letters into the database - El Forum - 05-04-2011 [eluser]jacobson[/eluser] Hello I have a problem with codeigniter and mysql database. I have my database set to utf8_general_ci, in the coonfig/database i have the same $db['default']['char_set'] = 'utf8'; $db['default']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci'; and still when I try to process the polish letter i get an error http://screenshotuploader.com/s/CahgEhnYcz where could be the problem ? Problem adding polish letters into the database - El Forum - 05-05-2011 [eluser]eoinmcg[/eluser] couple of things to check: 1. have you set Content-type to utf8 in the head of your html? (<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> )? 2. is your database / database tables using utf8 / utf8_general_ci’ ? here's a handy guide to what you should be doing: http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2009/08/UTF-8-support-for-CodeIgniter Problem adding polish letters into the database - El Forum - 05-05-2011 [eluser]Unknown[/eluser] Show us some code (html headers, controller and model). You can write a PM to me, I'll try to help you in polish Problem adding polish letters into the database - El Forum - 05-05-2011 [eluser]Ken Verhaegen[/eluser] Validate the input with htmlspecialchars (special chars become &charname; in the database) or something before you add the text into the database. You'll now have decent encoding to send to your database Grts. |