On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:30:19 +0100, Merlin <news.groups@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Only one: if you plan to use more, than one character set. Say, you > > want store in one column text with greek, german, italian and chineese > > characters ;-) > > The same column should hold english and german text. Acording to your reply this > seems fine since there are no special characters in english?! You are absolutely right ;-) > > Thanx, Merlin > > > Viacheslav Kaloshin wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:54:33 +0100, Merlin <news.groups@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>>1 - use latest versions (4.1) of mysql and UTF-8 encoding. > >> > >>I am using 4.0.18 and the data look korrekt when retriefed out of the database. > >>I did not enable any kind of encodeing. Is there a downfall in how I am doing > >>it, which I just now do not notice? > > > > > > Only one: if you plan to use more, than one character set. Say, you > > want store in one column text with greek, german, italian and chineese > > characters ;-) > > > > But if only one character set and no plans to extend - no problem to > > use "as is" without any reencoding > > > > > >>Regards, > >> > >>Merlin > >> > >> > >> > >>>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 ö? What are the benefits if it works without them as well? > >>>> > >>>>Thank you for any hint, > >>>> > >>>>Merlin > >>>> > >>>>-- > >>>>PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>>>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >>-- > >>PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > >> > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
