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[eluser]Dojjjan[/eluser]
this is making me insane!
im from sweden and need characters like åäö to be saved in my database which works just fine if i set $db['default']['char_set'] = "latin1";
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = "latin1_swedish_ci";
but when i should display it back in my viewer the data that comes from my database works fine but my html that also displays åäö comes back as åäö. And if i use UTF-8 åäö gets messed up in the database but the html lookes fine. I've used this: <?$this->output->set_header("Content-type: text/html; charset=latin1");?> in my viewer files and it still doesn't display right. Any ideas?