"a.h.s. boy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I've mostly lived through the experience of internationalizing a > very large PHP application (using gettext()) to support the majority of > Western languages. I'm using UTF-8 as the default encoding for the site > (and form input), though MySQL still has Latin1 as its default > character set (which doesn't seem to pose any problems). But just when > I thought that might be sufficient, of course someone comes along and > wants to use the system in English and...Japanese.
UTF-8 also covers Japanese letters... > Will I need to increase the field size of MySQL fields to accomodate > the extra bytes used in mb strings? Do I need to change MySQL's default > encoding? What if that MySQL server is also used by others who aren't > using Japaense? UTF-8 is also a kind of multi-byte charset / encoding. Moriyoshi -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
