Re: [Phpvideopro-developers] First Polish translation

[Itzchak R. <izz...@qu...>]

Hi Tom,

Tom Albers wrote:
> Hmm... Never worked with charsets. Isn't there a way to put them
> in a 'universal' manner in the db and when the right charset is
> chosen it looks like something?

Unicode (UTF8)? Never worked with that - but that would do exactly this. 
Alternative: use &html; codes instead of special chars. No smiley, since 
I could use PHP's conversion mechanism to store all information 
html-coded into the db. No need to port it back, since it will be 
displayed by a web browser. Thus, user entered data would be completely 
charset independant - only the users PHP installation would have to know 
what charset is in use. Two problems with this:
1) afaik PHP does this conversion always using iso-8859-1 (if not fixed)
2) if somebody wants to read the database from within another app...
    (s)he's lost - except that app understands teh HTML code natively

Opinions?

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