Re: [Wikipedia-l] Switching everything to UTF-8

Erik Moeller wrote:
> perhaps in the 5% range. Given that a single edit by such a person will
> break an entire page, it might not be so wise to switch (but perhaps I'm
> missing something -- is Meta running UTF-8?).

Would it be possible to let the database run on UTF-8 internally, but
to let the PHP script analyze and convert data to and from certain
browsers?  Perhaps the majority of users are using UTF-8-capable
browsers, so the conversion would use a minimum of resources.

All I know is that MySQL has better UTF-8 support from version 4.1.x,
as described in chapter 9, http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Charset.html
The same goes for Perl version 5.8, but what about PHP?


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