MySQL latin1 to UTF8 site

Hello guys,

After hours and some stupid changes I got the solution.

Because of stackoverflow threads I tried to modify the charset of the DB. I also tried to use some utf8_encode() in my views.

The good way is :

header view

PHP Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> 


config.php

PHP Code:

$config['charset'] = 'UTF-8'; 


database.php

PHP Code:

$db['default']['char_set'] = "iso-8859-1"; // or latin1
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = "latin1_general_ci"; // or latin1_swedish_ci 


Finally, with the default configuration of CI, I've to change database.php.
And I don't need any PHP function like utf8_encode() or some others to correctly display my datas.

I thank you for your fast answers !

Once again, sorry for the english, I'm french and continue to learn.

Edit: I set my database charset to latin1.