On Oct 21, 2010, at 1:17 PM, John Fabiani wrote:
> How does this work if the database is saving English and the app is written
> in
> Spanish.
Encoding has nothing to do with language. It is simply a method of
representing characters that can take up more than one byte of storage. One
byte can specify up to 256 different characters, and since there are many more
potential characters than that, a system for encoding those characters into
byte streams is needed. "utf8" is the most popular system, but there are
others. The important thing is that when reading back the byte stream, either
from disk or from a database, you have to decode those bytes to get back the
original characters.
-- Ed Leafe
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