On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:46 AM, David Mintz <da...@davidmintz.org> wrote:
> Would this regex work if the data were utf-8? Should I consider converting > everything and working in utf-8, and if so, how painful is it to convert a > MySQL database? My initial research suggests that it isn't painless. > Full-stack utf-8 is worth the pain of conversion. It makes a whole class of issues disappear and gives you the ability to accept anything the world is going to throw at you. Many php functions are not unicode aware (and php6 will be release right after perl6) but in practice those issues are much easier to deal with than trying to limit your data to iso-8859-1. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
