Tom Worster wrote: > On 4/27/09 4:25 PM, "PJ" <af.gourmet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Exactly what are the advantages of using utf-8? How will it solve my >> problem? >> > > actually, i have no idea because i have no idea what problem you are trying > to solve and i apologize for presumptuous. i presumed that you have a php > app with a bunch of data in mysql and you needed to handle international > characters in the db beyond latin-1. > I think you hit the nail on the head, except I dont need any of those weird foreign pictograms and scribbles ;-) I'm only using English ( the most difficult, of course), French(a bit twisted), Italian(a bit slanted, German(lots of options), Swedish(cold, cold), Portugese(oh, boy) and maybe some other Western European variety. "We do try to be civilized, don't we?" So, in the end, utf-8 may not be so important for me after all. All seems to be working just fine. I think I'll upload the stuff to the real site and we can all have a bash at it. 8-) -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
