Re: Re: PHP MySQL insert

On 8/19/05, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote: > On Fri, August 19, 2005 12:56 pm, areguera wrote: > >> could you suggest something about Latin characters and portability?. > > As I understand it, or not, more likely, you want to configure your > MySQL server to use UTF-8, and your MySQL client to use UTF-8 and > pretty much everything to use UTF-8, and then you can convert your > data to UTF-8 and its gonna store it in a way that you'll be able to > convert back to Latin-1 or whatever you like. > > At least, that's what Mark Matthews of MySQL A/B said in his talk > about this at our more recent Chicago MySQL User Group meeting. > > You may want to take this question to the i18n PHP list, where people > who have actually done it hang out. :-) thanks Richard, I'll make a walk around i18n php list...:) ... it seems that utf-8 is the solution for internationalization, but I ask my self what would happen with prior versions of mysql without utf-8 support? and how to design an application to both run as utf-8 or iso-8859-1 in the require situation. can it be? > > -- > Like Music? > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > > >