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List:       php-general
Subject:    Re: [PHP] String Encodings - loose guidelines
From:       Donovan Brooke <lists () euca ! us>
Date:       2011-01-28 18:25:46
Message-ID: 4D430A2A.1050601 () euca ! us
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Marc Guay wrote:
>> 1.) Saving strings to a database
>
> One thing I always forget to remember is to send tge "SET NAMES utf8"
> command to MySQL after making a connection.  This will save you 1000
> headaches if you're working with non-latin characters.  I can't count
> the number of times I've thrown htmlentities, htmlspecialchars,
> utf8_encode/decode/, stripslashes, etc, etc around trying to figure
> out why those É's aren't being saved or read properly.  I imagine this
> might fall into the category of "best practice".
>
> Marc


Thanks for the heads up!

Donovan


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