Skip to content

Comment on What developers should know about Unicode and character sets in 2013

Comments

Note that some browser do use the <meta charset="UTF-8"> even if the content-type header already sent the charset.

Another thing to add: always open a database connection in the charset of choice. And if you are a PHP user (like I am): there are still functions that don't support multibyte so be careful.

This is the biggest current driver towards me trying to muster the effort to move off of PHP. Also, I had no end of trouble working with filenames that contained UTF-8 characters using PHP, and had to give up in the end.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.