Codeigniter strips my "special chars"

[eluser]Fougner[/eluser]
Hey!

My first post here, and I just want to say, CodeIgniter is my new love for the moment. Everything works, and it's fast

Anyhow, all coins have a backside. When I use the code from the "blog-tutorial" and try to insert a comment that contains some of the swedish letters "å ä ö", codeigniter just cut from the first special-char, and much of my text disappears. Is there a way to get CodeIgniter a bit more "swedish-friendly" ?

I guess this forum is based upon CI ? Well, this forum handles "å ä ö" without the problems I've experienced...

Thanks in advance,
Alex

[eluser]dmiden[/eluser]
Hey Fougner,

I'm using sweden aswell on my website, first check your config.php:

Code:

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Default Character Set
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This determines which character set is used by default in various methods
| that require a character set to be provided.
|
*/
$config['charset'] = "iso-8859-1";

Notice the charset value.

Also check your meta tag:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Now lastly you'd want to check that your files are saved in "iso-8859-1" format and if you still have problems, just decode your strings before printing them.
Etc utf8_decode($string);

Good luck!

[eluser]Fougner[/eluser]
Hey!

Thanks for your help.
I fixed it with:

$db['default']['char_set'] = "latin1";
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = "latin1_swedish_ci";

in database.php

// Alex

[eluser]dejitaru[/eluser]
In spanish we also have special chars like á , 'u , ñ so I always use utf-8 to suports special chars

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

In mysql:
tables and fields are utf-8-general

[eluser]Crimp[/eluser]
I would go with UTF-8 at this point instead of Latin 1.