languages and PHP

Hi all. this is more of a general question but Im sure some people will have experience and also it will be useful to others who are looking for the same answers as I am. What are the implications of having a site that has many different languages, including latin and non latin characters? Firstly, can a mysql database handle these characters normally? or would you have to have a table for each language and set a different CHARSET for each language depending on the type of language? Secondly, PHP and displaying the information: Is there anything that needs to change with regards to PHP and handling of these characters? OR is it able to handle all characters fine? HTML: I assume the charset changes in the metatag in the <head> of the document? Is there anything else that I might be missing or other problems that I should be aware of? Thanks in advance. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Angelo Zanetti Systems developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Telephone:* +27 (021) 552 9799 *Mobile:* +27 (0) 72 441 3355 *Fax:* +27 (0) 86 681 5885 * Web:* http://www.zlogic.co.za *E-Mail:* angelo@zlogic.co.za <mailto:angelo@zlogic.co.za>