[Daniel]

After inserting

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

in my template all non-ascii characters come out as ?. If i then switch to iso-8859-15 in the browser everything is right again.

But that shouldn't be since my DB, my tables and the connection all use an utf-8 collation according to phpMyAdmin. And i suppose it has to do with the DB because writing problematic letters directly in the template files works. So does anyone have an idea why this is happening?

Where would i have to put something like:

mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8';", $link);
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8';", $link);

for testing purposes, for example?

P.S.: Without any metatags the encoding ends up being windows-1252. But the files are on a linux server.

[Daniel]

Ok, i found out myself. Seems like the default PDO is not using utf8. So in my recess-conf.php i added the needed driver option and was good to go. For reference:

$driver_options = array( PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8' );
RecessConf::$defaultDatabase
    = array('mysql:host=127.0.0.1;dbname=recess', 'myuser', 'mypass', $driver_options
);