Post form data be converted to HTML entities in CakePHP 2.x

[leewanvu]

All data from HTML form be converted to HTML entities.
E.g.

• à => &agrave ;
• á => &aacute ;
• € => &euro ;
  …

I need to save some special characters(à á ì …) to MySQL but only save HTML entities(&agrave, …) instead.
Currently config:

• mysql: utf8_general_ci
• database config: ‘encoding’ => ‘utrf-8’
• html page: charset utf-8
• form accept-charset=‘utf-8’

This is the post data that I got:

Please help me!

[gabriel1802]

Hello, use utf 8 Spanish 2.