Juliette Reinders Folmer (Jun 13, 2009)
Talk at Dutch PHP Conference 2009 (English - UK)
With PHP6 in the works and said to be fully UTF-8 compliant, the interest in the community in using UTF-8 has grown. On top of that, with PHP entering the – often multilingual – enterprise web playing field, the benefits UTF-8 can bring are getting more attention.
Unfortunately most developers at one point or another run into problems implementing UTF-8.
In this talk I will cover UTF-8 from the basic linguistics, through client-side aspects to all the steps you need to take to tackle the most common (and some more obscure) issues when using UTF-8 in a database driven PHP application.
Quicklink: http://joind.in/583
Jun 13, 2009, 10:43 by joe
Now this was a quick touristic ride through the bumpy landscape of charset, character encoding and unicode!
Love the hands-on examples of how to do it right. Slides are compulsory for every webdev, not only PHP!
And Joel Spolsky can rest assure that *finally* is done about the issue.
Thanks for this excellent talk!
Jun 13, 2009, 12:11 by ramsey
Very good session. Wish I had been able to see the whole presentation.
Jun 13, 2009, 12:21 by Anonymous
Great session. People assume I know everything there's to know about Unicode and such, but I learned something new too. :)
Jun 13, 2009, 14:38 by Gerb
This presentation is soooo relevant for my work right now. Bottom line: do UTF-8, always, all the time, everywhere!
Jun 13, 2009, 22:19 by Miljar
Excellent presentation Julliette! Learned quite some new stuff about character encoding and charactersets. People should give this more attention in their workflow. I'm glad I learned where to do what. Great job!
Jun 14, 2009, 13:05 by esnoeijs
Top notch. Very hands-on best practices on how to deal with UTF-8 in your application and also some useful background information about why unicode saves the day. Combined with some quirky humour and energetic speaker made for a very enjoyable talk.
Jun 14, 2009, 19:31 by Anonymous
Quite the speed, 80 slides in an hour! But still all info was given... well done!!
Jun 14, 2009, 21:03 by derick
(I've already rated it, but have an additional comment as well.)
I like this talk, with lots of good information. At some point you mentioned that most PHP functions are not UTF-8 "compliant"—that could perhaps do with an example (such as wordwrap issues).
Jun 14, 2009, 21:14 by pborgerm
One of the best of the conference, and a persistent reference for those who are confronted with charsets ... so basically all of us
Jun 14, 2009, 21:32 by rickmb
Awesome presentation! Pace, structure, depth, humor, everything was spot on. Plus of course tons of relevant, eye opening information. Thank you.
Jun 15, 2009, 11:18 by stefan
This was most probably the best talk I've seen at DPC, and it even competes in my list of all-time best talks. Excellent presentation, a lot of information, brought in a way that made it easily understandable. Excellent!
Jun 15, 2009, 13:12 by Anonymous
Your talk was great. The information was really good and the presentation was fun to listen to as well. Thanks!
Jun 15, 2009, 13:13 by MvMaasakkers
Sorry... The anonymous one on Jun 15, 2009, 13:12 by ANONYMOUS was me...
Jun 15, 2009, 18:54 by rickw
Very good talk highlighting techniques and pitfalls of utf-8 enabling your applications. Some of it obvious, other bits not so. Lots of info to take in but presented in such a way that it did not overload. Thanks!
Jun 15, 2009, 22:40 by Pelle
Good talk, most of it should be common knowledge for every developer by the way. But even for the people who mostly know the pitfalls, it was entertaining.
Jun 17, 2009, 06:46 by alexvandun
Very good presentation, packed with useful information and resources. I would recommend every developer to at least read through the slides to get an impression about the talk.
Jun 22, 2009, 10:55 by Anonymous
No slides yet? It was full of interesting links. I would like to pursue them.
Jun 13, 2009, 10:41 by hvdklauw
Great talk, there where some things I indeed didn't know yet.