Christophe Chisogne wrote: [lots of useful info snipped] Thanks for all that, Christophe - still digesting much of it.
As I don't code or web design for a living, and now have a site that's at least working, I think I can safely put off the whole unicode issue indefinitely ;-) One issue remains in my mind, should I decide to go the unicode route: given that my hosting company uses latin1 for its mysql server, are there any issues in having a myql server using latin1 while web pages and the data itself are utf-8? I've already proven that I can convert latin1 data to utf-8 without even trying... :-( -- @+ Steve -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php