PJ wrote: > Let me put it this way, I am not having the problem. The problem seems > to be withthe way that character encoding is set up on the internet - > as confused and inconsistent as most everything else. > You can put whatever charset you want in the header, in the collations > in your database, your htmls... you see already that the options start > to multiply rapidly...
You're making it more complicated than it is. Just stick to UTF8 and you'll be fine. > without even considering the browsers. So, I > have tried about all combinations possible and there is no one way to > implement display and use of accents. Sure there is. UTF-8. Period. > UTF-8 does not handle them very well at all; iso-8895-1 doesn't > either; you can set the coding on your browser to whatever you want - > when you update or reload the file the little black diamond devils > come back or turn into little blank squares on IE8... I think we've gone OT here, but honestly I have no problem with accents nor any other special characters anywhere - database, browser, whereever. And yes, I work with 4-5 different languages on a daily basis. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
