Re: [PHP-I18N] PHP support of Unicode?

Gunnar Vestergaard wrote:
> When using PHP, writing content in my local language and my neighbouring
> contries' language, ISO 8859-1 has been sufficient as a character
> encoding. But using PHP with other languages, is that possible? I mean,
> does PHP support Unicode at present time? As I understand it, the
> following statement is true:
> "PHP supports Unicode only as long as it is encoded as UTF-8"
> 
> Is that correct, or does PHP also support UTF-16?

It depends what you are doing.  PCRE, our regex library, only speaks
UTF-8 and there are functions like json_encode() that assume utf-8 as
well.  If you are just doing pass-through stuff, you can use whatever
you want.  It is only if you want to manipulate the text in some manner
that you need to worry about the encoding.

-Rasmus