On Wednesday 23 May 2012 20:41:15 Eugenio Tacchini wrote: > 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
http://arzala.blogspot.in/2007/02/internationalization.html Although very old, but still quite helpful article I had written addressing exactly this issue. Interetingly some links also points to various NYPHP resources :) Additionally please also consider localizations at here http://arzala.blogspot.in/2007/02/localization.html Thanks Anirudh Zala > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation > -- Thanks, Anirudhsinh Zala _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
