I'm using a simple form to write string to database, but the curly quotes (on retrieval) are being displayed as special characters.
So far I have tried changing the table collation to UTF-8 as well as using the CodeIgniter Typography class:
1. alter table test.vocab convert to character set utf8 collate
utf8_unicode_ci;
2. $this->load->library('typography');
$data['item'] = $this->typography->auto_typography($data['item'], FALSE);
This hasn't helped, though. Here's what the output looks like:
If needed I'll post more code. Please help.