Re: Placing html entities into database?

[Viacheslav Kaloshin <multik@xxxxxxxxx>]

2 possible solutions:
1 - use latest versions (4.1) of mysql and UTF-8 encoding.
2(bad) - before storing encode all string to base64 or something like this :-)

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:29:20 +0100, Merlin <news.groups@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am wondering how to store special characters like the german ö for example
> into a mysql db. Should the characters somehow be transforemd into html entities
> like &ouml;? What are the benefits if it works without them as well?
> 
> Thank you for any hint,
> 
> Merlin
> 
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