Setting encoding to MySQL connection to UTF-8

theiconic · Jan 7, 2015 · 579506a · 579506a
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commit 579506a
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diff --git a/src/Persister/PDO/MysqlPersister.php b/src/Persister/PDO/MysqlPersister.php
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ protected function getConnection()
             try {
                 $dsn = $this->config['driver']
                     . ':host=' . $this->config['host']
-                    . ';dbname=' . $this->config['database'];
+                    . ';dbname=' . $this->config['database']
+                    . ';charset=utf8';
 
                 $this->conn = new PDO($dsn, $this->config['username'], $this->config['password']);
                 $this->conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);