RE: [Phpvideopro-developers] First Polish translation

[Tom A. <to...@ko...>]

No idea really (again never worked with it).

But if you insist, since this is a php application, in 99 out of
100 cases it will be viewd in a browser. So I guess html-codes
would be the solution. Ditch the charset ;-)

Tom

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van:
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> [mailto:php...@li...urceforge.
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> Verzonden: dinsdag 4 september 2001 19:48
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> Onderwerp: Re: [Phpvideopro-developers] First Polish
> translation
>
>
> 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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