2008/3/5 Cliff Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Is there a downside to using utf-8?

No, but there are issues with some string functions.  In php4/5
functions like substr() operate on bytes, and may break UTF-8 strings
that contain multibyte characters.  I'd search your code for things
like "substr" and "pos", and make sure they are not operating on
userdata in an unsafe way.

see:
http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/utf-8

Regards,
John Campbell
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