Hi all, I need to distribute an application that potentially can be used with many different DBMSs (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server). The charset used in the databases can be ANY.
I would like to always output UTF-8 text when possible and my questions are about the current best practices to handle this kind of application with PHP. 1) As far as I know, PHP still doesn't support natively utf-8 so to avoid problems with string functions, I still have to use mbstring fucntions, am I right? What does PHP 5.4 change about that? 2) How to handle the fact that the data I receive from the database can be stored using any possible charset? Do I need iconv functions and convert everything in utf-8? And then convert it back in the original charset when I have to write to the DB? Thanks! Eugenio _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
