Character sets

Zach

There seem to be two (or more) character sets.

iso-8859-1
utf-8

Googeling tells me the latter should be used, yet my recently published
book tells me otherwise. Could I please have your informed comment?

Thank you.
Zach.

Harris Kosmidhs

Zach wrote:
> There seem to be two (or more) character sets.
>

more. A lot more.

> iso-8859-1
> utf-8
>
> Googeling tells me the latter should be used, yet my recently published
> book tells me otherwise. Could I please have your informed comment?
>
> Thank you.
> Zach.

It's 2007. Use UTF-8, both in DB and html

Zach

So one is outdated
Okay, thank you.
Zach.

Harris Kosmidhs wrote:
> Zach wrote:
>> There seem to be two (or more) character sets.
>>
>
> more. A lot more.
>
>> iso-8859-1
>> utf-8
>>
>> Googeling tells me the latter should be used, yet my recently
>> published book tells me otherwise. Could I please have your informed
>> comment?
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Zach.
>
> It's 2007. Use UTF-8, both in DB and html

Adrian Nievergelt

The only problem with UTF-8 is that some operating systems *cough* ms
*cough* have no or hardly sufficient support. About every modern system
can handle unicode though.

Zach wrote:
> So one is outdated
> Okay, thank you.
> Zach.
>
> Harris Kosmidhs wrote:
>> Zach wrote:
>>> There seem to be two (or more) character sets.
>>>
>>
>> more. A lot more.
>>
>>> iso-8859-1
>>> utf-8
>>>
>>> Googeling tells me the latter should be used, yet my recently
>>> published book tells me otherwise. Could I please have your informed
>>> comment?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Zach.
>>
>> It's 2007. Use UTF-8, both in DB and html

Zach

What to put behind charset?
Zach.

Adrian Nievergelt wrote:
> The only problem with UTF-8 is that some operating systems *cough* ms
> *cough* have no or hardly sufficient support. About every modern system
> can handle unicode though.
>
> Zach wrote:
>> So one is outdated
>> Okay, thank you.
>> Zach.
>>
>> Harris Kosmidhs wrote:
>>> Zach wrote:
>>>> There seem to be two (or more) character sets.
>>>>
>>> more. A lot more.
>>>
>>>> iso-8859-1
>>>> utf-8
>>>>
>>>> Googeling tells me the latter should be used, yet my recently
>>>> published book tells me otherwise. Could I please have your informed
>>>> comment?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Zach.
>>> It's 2007. Use UTF-8, both in DB and html

Steve

Zach <> wrote in news:474a9fd4$0$24409$5fc3050
@news.tiscali.nl:

> There seem to be two (or more) character sets.
>
> iso-8859-1
> utf-8
>
> Googeling tells me the latter should be used, yet my recently
published
> book tells me otherwise. Could I please have your informed comment?
>
> Thank you.
> Zach.
>

I have noticed a few messages by you Zach. If I was you lob that book in
the bin .... its way out of date. Use this group to find information
your need or google for popular PHP sites, there are loads out there!.

utf-8 is the best to use. It handles non standard characters a lot
better. That was putting it simple by the way.



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