title: Laravel 4.2 application encoding from UTF8 to iso-8859-1
body: <p>The database is based on MSSql and Laravel is successfully talking to it. Database is base on latin2 encoding so my Laravel app has to be iso-8859-1 istead UTF-8. Seems like entire laravel is shouting UTF8 though. I can't find anything in config files. </p>
  
  <p>I have changed database encoding in connection string to be lating1 but that still doesn't' change anything. </p>
  
  <p>When an entry is made form VB desktop application (my colleague is working on that) and he saves a £ symbol to the db, it goes there fine, although when I try to read that it gives me � symbol.</p>
  
  <p>On the other hand if from Form::open tag I create an entry in the database the £ gets prefixed with something weird!</p>
  
  <p>Also I have added <code>&lt;meta charset="iso-8859-1"&gt;</code> to the html tag of the website but when i go in firefox to see page info still tells me that the website is in UTF8. I tried changing some of the files to the western encoding (Sublime save as ->with formating) like index.php, routes.php but the website still shows as UTF8... </p>
  
  <p>Any help/ advice will be much appreciated.</p>