title: Zend DB and encoding
body: <p>I have just encountered something rather strange, I use the Zend Framework 1.10 with the Zend_Db_Table module to read some data from a databse. The database itself, the table and the fields in question all have their collation set to "utf8_general_ci" and all special chars appear correctly formatted in the DB when checked with phpMyAdmin. Also, saving with Zend_Db_Table works just fine, yet when I read the data and just echo it to my browser it is returned as ISO-8859-1, not as UTF8. I noticed the same thing when trying to use json_encode (which only works with UTF8 strings as input) on a value returned from the DB.</p>
  
  <p>How can I set that Zend_Db_Table/Zend_Db_Row should always work with UTF8 and return me an UTF8 value? I have not set anything regarding encoding in my app yet.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot for your help!</p>