Re: Re: translation of core files

On May 3, 2005, at 19:15, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote:

> Hans L wrote:
>
>> On a related note, I didn't find support on Creole mailing lists  
>> for the
>> incorporation of iconv() in our Creole version.  The consensus  
>> seems to
>> be that character translations does not belong in the database  
>> layer and
>> that having the database in a different charset from the PHP  
>> script is
>> just a bad idea.
>>
>
> When we want to run php with utf8 as internal encoding, it's not
> possible to get all datasource use this encoding; so conversion is not
> an option. Personaly I'm moving to Postgres instead of Mysql precisely
> to be able to handle everything with utf8. But I currently have a  
> mysql
> db backend with an unicode bc driven site that works well (people type
> in only european chars).
>

i think mysql 4.1 can do utf8 stuff
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