{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/indieteq/PHP-MySQL-PDO-Database-Class/issues/39","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/indieteq/PHP-MySQL-PDO-Database-Class/issues/39/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/indieteq/PHP-MySQL-PDO-Database-Class/issues/39/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/indieteq/PHP-MySQL-PDO-Database-Class/issues/39/events","html_url":"https://github.com/indieteq/PHP-MySQL-PDO-Database-Class/issues/39","id":65841373,"number":39,"title":"Problem with special characters (Ã¤Ã¶Ã¤Ã¶Ã¤)","user":{"login":"wickedsp1d3r","id":1852854,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1852854?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/wickedsp1d3r","html_url":"https://github.com/wickedsp1d3r","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wickedsp1d3r/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wickedsp1d3r/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wickedsp1d3r/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wickedsp1d3r/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wickedsp1d3r/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wickedsp1d3r/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wickedsp1d3r/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wickedsp1d3r/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wickedsp1d3r/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-04-02T05:27:25Z","updated_at":"2015-04-02T14:44:59Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hello there,\r\n\r\nI have a problem with special characters. They are inserted to db like this `Ã¤Ã¶Ã¤Ã¶Ã¤`.\r\n\r\nValues come from `POST` request, and they are tested with `mb_detect_encoding` that they are UTF-8 encoded. The document has `<meta charset=\"UTF-8\">`, and database table has `DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;` \r\n\r\nAny suggestions what I can try? Thanks.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/indieteq/PHP-MySQL-PDO-Database-Class/issues/comments/88932936","html_url":"https://github.com/indieteq/PHP-MySQL-PDO-Database-Class/issues/39#issuecomment-88932936","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/indieteq/PHP-MySQL-PDO-Database-Class/issues/39","id":88932936,"user":{"login":"francopan","id":8725999,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8725999?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/francopan","html_url":"https://github.com/francopan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/francopan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/francopan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/francopan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/francopan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/francopan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/francopan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/francopan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/francopan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/francopan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-02T14:44:59Z","updated_at":"2015-04-02T14:44:59Z","body":"I saw 2 pull requests for this issue. But I don't know if they work. \r\nYou could try using utf8_encode(); instead.\r\n\r\nIf you want to try the pull request made by guirest, change the files according to these links.\r\n\r\nhttps://github.com/giurest/PHP-MySQL-PDO-Database-Class/commit/d9b29e22387501e0cdb4607285cc15546ba75d61\r\n\r\nhttps://github.com/giurest/PHP-MySQL-PDO-Database-Class/commit/ccfcec82d0964a0cf03556588eeb92dddd59d16f"}}